Usually means: Bitter criticism or malice expressed.
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  1. vitriol: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vitriol: Merriam-Webster
  3. vitriol: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vitriol: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vitriol: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vitriol: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vitriol, vitriol: Wordnik
  8. vitriol: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vitriol: Wiktionary
  10. vitriol: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. vitriol: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. vitriol: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. vitriol: Dictionary.com
  14. vitriol: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Vitriol: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vitriol: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vitriol: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vitriol: Rhymezone
  19. Vitriol: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vitriol: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vitriol: FreeDictionary.org
  22. vitriol: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vitriol: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. vitriol: Legal dictionary

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  1. vitriol: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. vitriol: Medical dictionary

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  1. vitriol: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (dated) Any of various metal sulphates.
noun:  (dated) oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid).
noun:  (by extension) Bitterly abusive language.
verb:  (transitive) To subject to bitter verbal abuse.
verb:  (transitive, metallurgy) To dip in dilute sulfuric acid; to pickle.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To vitriolize.

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