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paint stripper

noun

  1. a liquid, often caustic, used to remove paint from a surface
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Over the following days paint stripper was poured on her car, she was spat at in the street and ostracised by people in her local community.

From BBC

To deal with any tenacious paint, use a liquid paint stripper, like CitriStrip.

Methylene chloride and ethyl acetate are commonly used in paint stripper, nail polish removers and degreaser.

From Salon

Wendy Hartley, whose 21-year-old son, Kevin, died in 2017 while refinishing a bathtub — even after being trained in how to apply the paint stripper — lauded the proposal in a statement provided to the EPA.

And if you use a paint stripper, you risk smearing the residue onto nearby bricks, which would look even worse.

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