Definition of Corrosive

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Corrosive

Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.

Having the quality of fretting or vexing.

That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.

That which has the power of fretting or irritating.

Related Definitions:

Acid, Action, An, As, Away, Body, Changing, Corrosive, Destroying, Eating, Fretting, Gradually, Having, Has, Irritating, Of, Or, Power, Quality, Substance, Texture, That, The, Vexing, Wearing, Which

Corrosive Quotations

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. Wilson

Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought.
Eugenio Montale

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman

Corrosive Translations

corrosive in Norwegian is etsende
corrosive in Spanish is corrosivo

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