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What does kerosene mean?

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Noun
  1. (Canada, US) A petroleum-based thin and colorless fuel; (Britain) paraffin.
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For those people who use kerosene, the fuel price hike will be a heavy burden.
To reduce the problem of fuel supply in the cave, they turned to less bulky kerosene.
The next morning Nataraj asked for an advance on his salary to buy rice, and kerosene for the little stove we provide. I gave it to him.
The price of petrol, diesel and kerosene has gone up four times since February.
He was beaten until he lay writhing helplessly on the ground, whereupon his captors doused his body with kerosene and set it ablaze.
A mechanism used to shed light usually fueled by kerosene, or perhaps whale oil in Poe's day.

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