corrosive

From Old French corrosif

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.
   • Shakespeare

     Care is no cure, but corrosive.

3. destroying or undermining something gradually

• corrosively
• corrosiveness
• corrosivity
• corrode

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.

corrosive

1. feminine singular of corrosif

corrosive

1. feminine plural of corrosivo

corrōsive

1. vocative masculine singular of corrōsivus