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[kuh-roh-siv]

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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.

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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Origin:
1350–1400; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Medieval Latin corrōsīvus, equivalent to Latin corrōs(us) (see corrosion) + -īvus -ive; replacing Middle English corosif < Middle French < Latin as above

Related forms

cor·ro·sive·ly, adverb

cor·ro·sive·ness, cor·ro·siv·i·ty

[kawr-oh-siv-i-tee, kor-] , noun

non·cor·ro·sive, adjective

non·cor·ro·sive·ly, adverb

non·cor·ro·sive·ness, noun

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Example Sentences

Many will pick up habits that have a corrosive cultural influence on those around them.

The fuel is hard to siphon back out, and because it is corrosive can stay in the missile only for a matter of days.

They hand-dip electrolytic plates into corrosive chemical solutions.

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Many will pick up habits that have a corrosive cultural influence on those around them.

The fuel is hard to siphon back out, and because it is corrosive can stay in the missile only for a matter of days.

They hand-dip electrolytic plates into corrosive chemical solutions.

Hydrofluoric acid is in fact incredibly corrosive and dangerous.

It is best to avoid physical contact with oxalic acid as it is a harmful substance which is corrosive.

The word sounds retro, but its corrosive power lingers.

Rejecting with scorn his own youthful idealism, he embraced a corrosive scepticism which dissolved any ethical or moral claims.

The corrosive chemistry and dense, moving atmosphere cause significant surface weathering and erosion.

The fluid from the deep granite was so corrosive it ate the special well casings out within months.

And you should probably never, ever take it anywhere near the corrosive salt and sand of your local beach.

Hydrochloric acid is highly corrosive and can cause burns if it comes into direct contact with skin or eyes.

Crude oil is full of corrosive chemicals and abrasive minerals, so damage to pipework is a constant risk.

Mogao's murals have always been fragile, the thinnest tissue of paint caught in a corrosive battle between rock and air.

Turns out the deep well hydro thermal water is highly corrosive.

Further evidence of the corrosive effect of the teachers' unions can be found in the prevalence of private schooling.

Corrosive chemicals, such as battery acid, are hazardous waste and are often marked with this symbol.

Improved safety, no corrosive electrolyte and low toxicity of materials.

But the corrosive mixture of boric acid and seawater will also make the reactor much harder to get running again.

Stainless steel reinforced axles will take the weight and resist the corrosive marine environment.

But don't push the corrosive fuel ethanol into our fuel supply.

In both cases, a greater level of progressivity is thought corrosive to the political viability of larger political goals.

Fay said blistering things of the sort that only a drill sergeant, or an especially corrosive fifth-grade teacher, might utter.

Another difficulty is that the water-splitting reaction is highly corrosive.

Helium conducts heat well-making the reactor efficient-and, unlike water, is not corrosive.

To be totally pedantic, on airport runways neither is used, and the less corrosive chemical urea is often the choice.

Indeed, honest failure is even more corrosive of trust than outright criminality.

Some of the chemicals in the oil are highly corrosive.

Chronic underemployment is likely to prove corrosive.

But for this cabinet post more than any other, an overtly political appointment would have been corrosive to investor confidence.

Ethanol is corrosive and has less energy per litre than petrol and diesel.

But the financial crisis adds a new and corrosive element.

By any reckoning it has had a corrosive effect on consumption, debt and investment in the past decade.

Corrosive means it can cause severe burns and tissue damage when it comes into contact with the skin or.

And whatever their impact in the world at large, outsized presidential salaries have corrosive effects within their communities.

The ocean depths became so corrosive that in many places shells stopped piling up on the seafloor and simply dissolved.

Instead, what's happening is highly corrosive to any democracy.

Both plants had leaked boric acid, which is an additive in reactor coolant that is highly corrosive to carbon steel.

Best of all, it would remove the corrosive conflict between athletics and academics.

Temperatures would drop, and corrosive acid snow and rain would fall.

The result is a far-ranging condemnation of the corrosive effects that poverty can have on children.

Borax is stronger and more corrosive than baking soda and can be toxic when.

Throughout life he nursed a corrosive anger against novelists who had that advantage over him.

Leverich's narrative discloses is the dynamic of the family's corrosive relations.

Bailey's peers, his story is a morality play about the corrosive effects of political correctness on academic freedom.

For example, toilet and drain cleaners are corrosive acids that should not go in household trash.

Detroit is fighting real crime and the even more corrosive and debilitating perception of crime.

But somehow his head stays up, his corrosive laugh breaks off the page.

Rebecca/Hazel has thrown off her father's corrosive pessimism and drawn strength from his cynical cunning.

Hand outs are mentally corrosive to the mind and the body.

In fact there is no reason why an evenly distributed increase in inequality should be any more corrosive than an uneven one.

Consider what an unregulated industry would be capable of, if it is corrosive enough to corrupt its regulators.

High inequality is corrosive since it is seen as unfair, especially combined with low mobility.

It exports something simpler, more appealing to many and indeed more corrosive to western pre-eminence.

Any strict system tends to be corrosive and corrupting.

The hubris and hype that surrounds these people is corrosive and distructive in the wider body politic.

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World English Dictionary

corrosive (kəˈrəʊsɪv)

—*adj*
1.	(esp of acids or alkalis) capable of destroying solid materials
2.	tending to eat away or consume
3.	cutting; sarcastic: a corrosive remark

—n
4.	a corrosive substance, such as a strong acid or alkali

cor'rosively

—*adv*

cor'rosiveness

—n

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Word Origin & History

corrosive

late 14c., from Fr. corrosif (14c.), from corroder (see corrode).

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Medical Dictionary

corrosive cor·ro·sive (kə-rō'sĭv, -zĭv)
adj.
Causing or tending to cause the gradual destruction of a substance by chemical action. n.
A substance having the capability or tendency to cause slow destruction.

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