[f. prec. sb.] trans. To saturate with kerosene, esp. in order to render inflammable.

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1883.  A. M. Sullivan, in Pall Mall Gaz., 20 March, 7/1. Our homes are in the midst of the cities that are, forsooth, to be kerosined and dynamited.

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1894.  Sir E. Braddon, in Blackw. Mag., Sept., 393–4. The cook who strains his master’s soup through a much kerosened lamp-cloth or some other obnoxious medium.

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