CORROSIVE
\kəɹˈə͡ʊsɪv], \kəɹˈəʊsɪv], \k_ə_ɹ_ˈəʊ_s_ɪ_v]\
Definitions of CORROSIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
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That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
By Oddity Software
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Having the power of gradually eating away, as by chemical action.
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That which eats away or destroys tissue, as an acid: corrosive sublimate, mercuric chloride, a white crystalline poisonous compound.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Having the power of corroding.
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That which corrodes.
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Having the quality of eating away.
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That which has the power of corroding.
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CORROSIVELY.
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CORROSIVENESS.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Corrosives are substances, which, when placed in contact with living parts, gradually disorganize them. Caustic alkalies, Mineral acids, Corrosive sublimate, are corrosives. They act either directly, by chemically destroying the part, - or indirectly, by causing inflammation and gangrene.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
