Methylate

1. To add methyl alcohol to ethanol to render it undrinkable.
2. To replace an atom, usually a hydrogen, with a methyl group.

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Meth"yl*ate (?), n. [Methyl + alcoholate.] Chem.

An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa.

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Meth"yl*ate (?), v. t.

To impregnate or mix with methyl or methyl alcohol.

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