Usually means: Substance that damages materials, tissues.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. corrosive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. corrosive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. corrosive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corrosive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. corrosive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Corrosive, corrosive: Wordnik
  7. corrosive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. corrosive: Wiktionary
  9. corrosive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. corrosive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. corrosive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. corrosive: Dictionary.com
  13. corrosive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Corrosive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Corrosive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. corrosive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. corrosive: Rhymezone
  18. Corrosive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. corrosive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. corrosive: Free Dictionary
  21. corrosive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. corrosive: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. corrosive: Legal dictionary
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  1. corrosive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. corrosive: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Corrosive: Material Safety Data Sheets HyperGlossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. corrosive: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  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.
adjective:  Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
adjective:  destroying or undermining something gradually.
noun:  That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
noun:  Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

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