Crossword-Solution: CORROSIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Corrosive | a. | 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. |
| Corrosive | a. | Having the quality of fretting or vexing. |
| Corrosive | n. | That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually. |
| Corrosive | n. | That which has the power of fretting or irritating. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “CORROSIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like an etcher's acid | 1 answer |
| CORROSION, causing | 1 answer |
| Causing erosion | 2 answers |
| CORRODING substance | 2 answers |
| CAUSING corrosion | 3 answers |
| erosive | 4 answers |
| archilochian | 5 answers |
| A SUBSTANCE HAVING THE TENDENCY TO CAUSE CORROSION | 11 answers |
| acerb | 23 answers |
| Acerbic | 24 answers |
| Mordant | 26 answers |
| Acrid | 27 answers |
| CAUSTIC ___ | 42 answers |
| destroyer | 49 answers |
| Grating | 49 answers |
| Acid | 54 answers |
| Acrimonious | 61 answers |
| Sarcastic | 69 answers |
| Burning | 72 answers |
| CUTTING ___ | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CORROSIVE (5)
John Vansittart Smith spun round upon his heel with the intention of shaming his countrymen by a corrosive remark or two.
Father Paulian examined this man with all the attention he possibly could, and found his gullet very large, his teeth exceedingly strong, his saliva very corrosive, and his stomach lower than ordinary.
Both bodies were examined by doctors, and they declared themselves satisfied that mother and son had died "from a bitter and corrosive poison administered in some kind of drink." What the poison was they did not venture to state, but one of their number, in the light of subsequent investigation, arrived at the conclusion that Derues had used in both cases corrosive sublimate.
The penetrating power of his mind, acting like a corrosive fluid, had destroyed his ambition, I fancy.
Another mistake; for if Roderick had not yet been destroyed by his own poisoned heart nor the snake by gnawing it, they had little to fear from arsenic or corrosive sublimate.
Quotes with CORROSIVE (3)
Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was.
Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take immediate selfish interests and enmesh them within transcendent, spiritual meanings. Love becomes a holy cause, an act of self-sacrifice and selfless commitment. But texting and the utilitarian mind-set are naturally corrosive toward poetry and imagination. A coat of ironic detachment is required for anyone who hopes to withstand the brutal …
He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it's because he never quite felt that he deserved to receive it. He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy, sometimes nearly all of him, but, as an adult, he was never entirely not crazy. What he'd s…
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2012–2019).