corrosive
adjective
having the quality of corroding or eating away; erosive.
corrosiveness
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a word derived from
corrosive.
Example Sentences
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What ruins clothes is the corrosiveness of the chemicals used in the cleaning process when you put something in your washing machine and/or when you send it off to dry clean.
From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 2022
Some have leveled that criticism against “The Godfather” too, but Coppola wanted his movie to be a metaphor about the corrosiveness of unrestrained capitalism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2022
The corrosiveness of official lying has long been the subject of philosophers.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2019
The Divide and Conquer film-makers set out to balance the story of Ailes’s brilliance with the reality of his corrosiveness, said Bloom.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 7, 2018
He started thinking about the properties of wood and the corrosiveness of salt water.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
