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Meanings of erosive 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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Local corrosive injury is the major focus of treatment in severe cases.
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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 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.
Usage of erosive in English
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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.
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The tumor was mistakenly diagnosed as synovitis and a chronic, erosive, inflammatory process.
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Study design: A retrospective review of 113 women with erosive vulvar lichen planus.
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The erosive demineralisation was to be compared with demineralisation in caries.
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How does this fact affect its erosive power on hard rock?
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On-demand PPI is also another good option for a maintenance therapy in erosive esophagitis.
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It is essential to consider Streptobacillus infection in the differential diagnosis of erosive polyarthritis.
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In contrast, mean depth and width of erosive lesions increased in the methotrexate-treated group.
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In subgroup analysis, anti-CCP antibodies in RF-negative patients were also associated with erosive disease.
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Now figure out for a few moments the results of these different erosive periods.
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Clinical symptoms responded promptly to corticosteroids to reveal severe erosive arthropathy of both wrists.
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At endoscopy, three patients had mild to moderate erosive esophagitis.
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