corrosive

From Old French corrosif.

• IPA^(key): /kəˈɹəʊsɪv/

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corrosive (comparative more corrosive, superlative most corrosive)

1. Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
2. Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
   • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Care is no cure, but corrosive.

3. destroying or undermining something gradually.

• corrosive sublimate

corrosive (plural corrosives)

1. That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
2. Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁo.ziv/

corrosive

1. feminine singular of corrosif

corrosive

1. feminine plural of corrosivo

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kor.roːˈsiː.u̯e/, [kɔrːoːˈs̠iːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kor.roˈsi.ve/, [korːoˈs̬iːve]

corrōsīve

1. vocative masculine singular of corrōsīvus