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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To treat or impregnate with camphor.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To treat or impregnate with camphor: as, “a camphorated draught,”
  • Pertaining to camphor or impregnated with it: as, “camphorate liquors,”
  • noun [= NL. camphoratum, neut.] In chem., a compound of camphoric acid with different bases.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To impregnate or treat with camphor.
  • noun (Chem.) A salt of camphoric acid.
  • Combined or impregnated with camphor.
  • an oleaginous preparation containing camphor, much used as an embrocation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry Any salt of camphoric acid.
  • verb transitive To treat or impregnate with camphor.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb treat with camphor

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Compare French camphorate.

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