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corrosive
[ kuh-roh-siv ]
adjective
- having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
- harmful or destructive; deleterious:
the corrosive effect of poverty on their marriage.
- sharply sarcastic; caustic:
corrosive comments on the speaker's integrity.
noun
- something corrosive, as an acid or drug.
corrosive
/ kəˈrəʊsɪv /
adjective
- (esp of acids or alkalis) capable of destroying solid materials
- tending to eat away or consume
- cutting; sarcastic
a corrosive remark
noun
- a corrosive substance, such as a strong acid or alkali
Derived Forms
- corˈrosively, adverb
- corˈrosiveness, noun
Other Words From
- cor·rosive·ly adverb
- cor·rosive·ness cor·ro·siv·i·ty [kawr-oh-, siv, -i-tee, kor-], noun
- noncor·rosive adjective
- noncor·rosive·ly adverb
- noncor·rosive·ness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of corrosive1
Example Sentences
Clearly, we need far stronger protections that address the corrosive effects on society of this kind of technology.
In the US, this attitude has been corrosive to support for government funding of important high-tech industries like chip fabrication, which, as Jeremy Hsu writes, is one reason America is racing to catch up to manufacturers overseas.
Those kinds of antics, those kinds of threats, they’re really corrosive.
We need to worry about Q because the long-term effect is corrosive to democratic values.
Concerns over privacy and the corrosive effects of social media on politics have made it beneficial for politicians around the world to go after Big Tech.
Such was the corrosive paranoia of the time, fueled by McCarthy and abetted by Hoover.
The road salt makes a mushy, corrosive paste that is flung universally about the under-and over-sides of every vehicle.
But there is also something potentially more corrosive happening.
Mr. President, you can speak out and help us confront this corrosive element, but time is running out.
This, surely, has had a corrosive effect on Tejpal and his self-image.
They exert a caustic or corrosive action on animal and vegetable substances.
Number Three was insulated against a frigid but relatively non-corrosive atmosphere.
It dissolves mercury, and with it forms corrosive sublimate.
Many corrosive preparations are recommended for the cure of this disease, but I have decided objections to one and all of them.
This liquor is very corrosive, and tinges animal substances of a blackish brown colour.
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