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Meanings of corrosive in English
Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action.
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Examples for "caustic"
Examples for "caustic"
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Your effort to be caustic is the sweetest thing in the world.
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The lunar caustic was applied in half an hour after the accident.
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We shall therefore in this place describe the manufacture of caustic soda.
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The action of lime is greatest in its caustic or unslacked form.
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The caustic Junius and other writers took this side of the question.
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The dyes fixed with metallic mordant vary in their composition and properties.
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Preparation or mordant for eight dresses, silk and wool mixed, for black.
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The voice of the Bassett cut in on these mordant reflections:
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Wool is generally boiled in a weak solution of whatever mordant is used.
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Isabella opposed the scheme vehemently and unwisely, with mordant sarcasm and unjust reproaches.
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For example, it describes my column of a week ago as vitriolic.
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The vitriolic power of the poison is excellently expressed in the story.
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Years later vitriolic supporters still resorted to chants calling him a paedophile.
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Trump's vitriolic anti-Muslim campaign statements are thus totally irrelevant to the analysis.
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But to the Episcopal Church the priest dispensed the most vitriolic criticism.
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Anti-CCP antibodies were also associated with erosive disease in RF-negative RA patients.
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This is a fragile area with erosive soil and rare plants.
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Our results suggest an association between erosive LP and HCV infection.
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A major erosive weather phenomenon such as a planetwide flood could do it.
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Thirty-metre-high hard-rock columns that had resisted the erosive power of wind and wave.
Usage of corrosive in English
1
Local corrosive injury is the major focus of treatment in severe cases.
2
His screenplays frequently delved into the corrosive influences of wealth and power.
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One method is dipping the potatoes in a solution of corrosive sublimate.
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The company is testing specialized materials that can resist those corrosive effects.
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But the doctors again declared the presence of corrosive sublimate and opium.
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The dire mockery of it burned his mind like a corrosive acid.
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The 'maths geek' stereotype is more corrosive than it may first appear.
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There was no corrosive bitterness of the vengeful in Jolly Roger's heart.
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I found, however, some corrosive sublimate tabloids in my leather medicine case.
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She stopped suddenly as doubt struck her with vicious and corrosive force.
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Spectacle frames of non-corrosive white metal, not steel, are the proper sort.
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On the other hand, this stuff appears to be a universal corrosive.
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Ethanol cannot be transported through gasoline pipelines because of its corrosive properties.
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But his humour is bitter as gall, and corrosive as sulphuric acid.
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It was not slow and corrosive like Jack's, but fast and volatile.
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Beneath the anger, though, was the corrosive edge of old, bitter despair.
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