Synonyms for coal
koʊlcoal

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1. coalnoun

   fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period

   Synonyms:
   ember

2. ember, coalverb

   a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

   Synonyms:
   ember

3. char, coalverb

   burn to charcoal

   "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything"

   Synonyms:
   blacken, sear, scorch, char

4. coalverb

   supply with coal

   Synonyms:
   char

5. coalverb

   take in coal

   "The big ship coaled"

   Synonyms:
   char

Matched Categories

1. • Burn
   • Fossil Fuel
   • Supply
   • Take In
   • Vegetable Matter

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1. coalnoun

   Synonyms:
   anthracite, bituminous, charcoal, culm, scoria, slack, ember

   Associated words:
   carbon, carboniferous, gobbing, strata, carbonize, carbonization, briquette, coke, brat, brattice, brettice

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1. List of paraphrases for "coal":

   charcoal, al-fahm, carbon, smut, anthrax, coals, carbone

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1. David Ritter:

   Coal is the number one driver of climate change in Australia - we urgently need a plan to phase out coal power to be replaced by clean energy.

2. Hugh Wynne:

   We expect coal-to-gas switching to drive an increase in utility gas burn in 2015 of about 1.8 bcfd.

3. Joshua Henne:

   This is yet another canary in the coal mine for both November and the years ahead, you can look back four years to around now when Eric Cantor was knocked off and what that meant for an ascendant wing on the right. This is a big deal.

4. Grzegorz Tobiszowski:

   We are realistic and we are aware that Poland as just one country will not have an impact on the Paris outcome, but we want to draw our partners' attention to the extraordinary situation of Poland's coal-based economy.

5. Premier Li Keqiang:

   We will strive for zero-growth in the consumption of coal in key areas of the country, environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.