Acrid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACRID in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• sharp to the taste or smell
• unpleasantly bitter or pungent
• pungent, bitter
• Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.
• Causing heat and irritation; corrosive; as, acrid secretions.
• Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing.
• strong and sharp
• harsh or corrosive in tone
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• sharp and harsh to the taste or smell

Words related to ACRID

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Words that contain ACRID

acrider10 acridin10 acridly13 epacrid12 acridest11 acridine11 acridins11 acridity14 epacrids13 subacrid13 acridines12 acridness12 acridities13 acridnesses14

How to use ACRID in a sentence

• The air was growing cooler, with the queer, acrid smell in it that high hills bring.
• It is less acrid than the black, and is much prized among the Chinese.
• It was like a gas, its taste was acrid and bitter as death.
• The air was heavy with the acrid fumes of smoke and powder.
• Annie, by the incursion of her eldest born, was changed, as always, from an acrid acquiescence to definite enmity towards Ishmael and his concerns.
• The leaves are acrid, and emit a pungent odour when handled.
• There was an acrid odor of dynamite fumes in the air, and when he pressed on to the third room of the suite the gases were stifling.
• It is acrid and caustic, and intensely acid in all its characters, even when largely diluted.
• And his mouth, with its constrained thin lips and the acrid lines about it, was unmistakably a strong one.
• The air snapped and tingled with a shower of blue-red sparks, and the acrid odor of the released gases settled down upon us.
• The sharp, acrid smell of blazing wood was in the air now.
• It was this stuff, green and partly wet, which gave out the choking acrid smoke.
• And it gave forth, as the flames crept up the blue cloth sides of it, a pleasant though acrid smell.
• A pungent, acrid odor was floating through a partly closed door.
• Gloom and resentment sat upon the members of the Third, and brought a more than usually acrid note into their debates.
• An acrid smell stole out into the air, which thickened every minute in intensity.
• The only result was a long and acrid correspondence between them.
• Here the vapors and mists seemed to be imprisoned by the boughs and foliage, and the odors were heavy and acrid.
• It has one great advantage over coco-nut oil, that the candles made of it do not give out any suffocating acrid vapors when extinguished, as those made with the latter oil do.

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