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CORROSIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("corrosive" is a kind of...):
chemical compound; compound ((chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight)
Derivation:
corrosive (of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
Synonyms:
caustic; corrosive; erosive; mordant; vitriolic
Classified under:
Similar:
destructive (causing destruction or much damage)
Derivation:
corrode (become destroyed by water, air, or a corrosive such as an acid)
corrode (cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid)
corrosive (a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali))
Sense 2
Meaning:
Spitefully sarcastic
Example:
corrosive cristism
Classified under:
Similar:
sarcastic (expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds)
Context examples:
A clear, colorless, volatile liquid brominated hydrocarbon with a mild, sweet, chloroform-like odor that emits corrosive and toxic fumes when heated to decomposition.
(Ethylene Dibromide, NCI Thesaurus)
Chromium trioxide is highly corrosive and is a strong oxidizing agent.
(Chromium Trioxide, NCI Thesaurus)
Calcium chromate is highly corrosive and is a strong oxidizing agent.
(Calcium Chromate, NCI Thesaurus)
A colorless, corrosive, oily liquid that darkens with age and has a faint peppermint odor.
(Diethyl Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)
This doctor therefore proposed, that upon the meeting of the senate, certain physicians should attend it the three first days of their sitting, and at the close of each day’s debate feel the pulses of every senator; after which, having maturely considered and consulted upon the nature of the several maladies, and the methods of cure, they should on the fourth day return to the senate house, attended by their apothecaries stored with proper medicines; and before the members sat, administer to each of them lenitives, aperitives, abstersives, corrosives, restringents, palliatives, laxatives, cephalalgics, icterics, apophlegmatics, acoustics, as their several cases required; and, according as these medicines should operate, repeat, alter, or omit them, at the next meeting.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
This priest I was able to find, and though he proved a very argumentative fellow, who took it absurdly amiss that I should point out to him the corrosive effect which modern science must have upon his beliefs, he none the less gave me some positive information.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
