Corrosive is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CORROSIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a corrosive substance
• a corrosive substance.
• That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
• That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
• a substance having the tendency to cause corrosion (such a strong acids or alkali)
• corrosive substance, such as a strong acid or alkali
ADJECTIVE:
• having the power to corrode, also CORSIVE
• tending to cause corrosion
• (esp of acids or alkalis) capable of destroying solid materials
• Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.
• Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
• of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
• spitefully sarcastic
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• tending or having the power to corrode

Words related to CORROSIVE

corrosively19 corrosiveness18 corrosives15

Words that contain CORROSIVE

corrosives15 corrosively19 noncorrosive17 anticorrosive18 corrosiveness18 noncorrosives18 anticorrosives19 corrosivenesses20

How to use CORROSIVE in a sentence

• XI THE CORROSIVE That evening I smoked in a splendid isolation while the men whispered apart.
• The principal poison, however, was corrosive sublimate.
• Surcharged steam produced by salt water, corrosive action of.
• In each case the preliminary irrigation with the corrosive sublimate solution is dispensed with.
• The corrosive poison had already done its work, and there was no antidote.
• Foreman patented the application of a dry powder for preserving wood, which was composed of certain proportions of salt, arsenic, and corrosive sublimate.
• Corrosive sublimate or Bordeaux mixture may be used as a substitute for the white lead paint.
• He was soft from months of inaction, from the cactus whisky of Mexico, too, that ate into a man like a corrosive acid.
• The corruption spread through the trees like wildfire, and seemed to thrive on copper sulphate rather than succumb to its corrosive influence.
• Among these is a so-called corrosive sublimate soap, of which several brands are on sale.
• The lady-critic alluded to had suffered by a panic, in imagining that a parody was necessarily a corrosive satire.
• Aylmer snatched the metallic plate and threw it into a jar of corrosive acid.
• The longevity of either the flat or the round steel band is dependent primarily on effective protection against contact with corrosive elements.
• A small quantity of some corrosive substance, a handful of emery will be the end of oil cups.
• When he was fifty-nine he swallowed a certain corrosive poison, which did not kill him, but left him toothless.
• The process of disintegration must inexorably continue, and its corrosive influence must penetrate deeper and deeper into the very core of a crumbling age.
• Tieck must have been liberally baptized with Spree-water, for the instantaneous, corrosive Berlin wit was a large part of his endowment.
• Alkalies, the class of chemicals to which soda and salaratus belong, when pure and strong, are powerful corrosive poisons.
• His hair having probably been dyed with some corrosive preparation, had left it woolly and rough to the touch.
• The copper roof of the church shone with corrosive green.
• It seems that this juice is corrosive and produces such terrible pain that the slaves are unable to eat on account of their sufferings.
• In the hand of Berengar of Tours the methods of Greek logic proved a corrosive to the received doctrine of the Mass.
• Without this most necessary operation, the mucilage would ferment and expose the berry to injury, from its highly corrosive qualities.

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