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Sulfur

//ˈsʌl.fɚ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur.
  2. 2
    Having a characteristic sulfur-like smell, reminiscent of rotten eggs.

    "On the November morning when the sulfur burps began, Derron Borders was welcoming prospective students at the graduate school where he works in New York. […] Sulfur burps appear to be a somewhat rare side effect of semaglutide, tirzepatide, and other drugs in their class, known as GLP-1 receptor agonists."

Noun
  1. 1
    A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks. uncountable, usually

    "A Dungeon horrible, on all ſides round / As one great Furnace flam’d, yet from thoſe flames / No light, but rather darkneſs viſible / […] but torture without end / Still urges, and a fiery Deluge, fed / With ever-burning Sulphur unconſum’d:"

  2. 2
    an abundant tasteless odorless multivalent nonmetallic element; best known in yellow crystals; occurs in many sulphide and sulphate minerals and even in native form (especially in volcanic regions) wordnet
  3. 3
    A chemical element with atomic number 16, having a bright yellow color and characteristic smell, used commercially in a variety of products such as insecticides, black powder, and matchsticks.; The element symbolically associated with hellfire or damnation, or in alchemy, the fiery principle present in all things. uncountable, usually

    "“She shall be blasted like a riven oak! Drowned in sulphur! Torn by whirlwinds!”"

  4. 4
    A yellowish green colour, like that of sulfur. countable, uncountable, usually
  5. 5
    Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the sulfur-coloured species. uncountable, usually
Verb
  1. 1
    To treat with sulfur, or a sulfur compound, especially to preserve or to counter agricultural pests. transitive
  2. 2
    treat with sulphur in order to preserve wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.

Etymology 3

From Middle English sulphur, borrowed from Anglo-Norman sulfre, from Latin sulfur, from sulpur itself of uncertain origin. Displaced Old English swefl and largely displaced brimstone.

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