Definition of Caustic

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Definition of Caustic
	Caustic Alt. of Caustical Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic. A caustic curve or caustic surface. Related Definitions: Action, Alt, An, Animal, Any, Applied, By, Caustic, Caustical, Chemical, Curve, Escharotic, It, Of, Or, Organic, Other, Substance, Surface, Tissue, To, Which

Caustic Quotations

Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
Samuel Goldwyn

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
George Eliot

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
Barbara Walters

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
Anthony Trollope

Caustic Translations

caustic in Italian is nitido, erosivo

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