corrosive

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  1. adjective Having the capability or tendency to cause corrosion: a corrosive acid.
  2. adjective Gradually destructive; steadily harmful: corrosive anxiety; corrosive increases in prices; a corrosive narcotics trade.
  3. adjective Spitefully sarcastic: corrosive criticism; corrosive wit.

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  • The glue solidified and Chuntha sparked the magicked screw to higher rotation. —  Conan the Indomitable
  • Evan stiffened, remembering previously observed secreters of dangerous acids, but this one didn't act like a corrosive. —  Sentenced To Prism
  • "Couldn't have been anything corrosive or you'd know right off," he said. —  I is for Innocent
  • It's highly corrosive, too. —  Bloodhype
  • - —  The Rockingdown Mystery
 

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  1. = French corrosif = Provencal corroziu, corrossiu = Spanish Portuguese Italian corrosivo, from Middle Latin as if *corrosivus, from Latin corrosus, past participle of corrodere, corrode: see corrode. Cf. corsive.
  2. from corrosive, n.
 

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/kəˈroʊsɪv/
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