Definition of "denatured" [denatured]

• Having been deprived of its nature, having had its nature changed. (adjective)
• Of alcohol made undrinkable, by adding a toxin or unpalatable substance, but still useful as a fuel or solvent. Traditionally by the addition of methanol (wood alcohol). (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of denature. (verb)

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• "No difference - except that the ethanol put in gasoline is "denatured" - made unfit for human consumption."
• "I really can't agree with most of the recent copyedits to the article; the language has been systematically denatured, which is a bad thing."
• "What you end up with is a tale told in broad strokes, akin to the kind of denatured film biographies the studios produced in the 1940s and 1950s."