Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COR-RO'SIVE
COR-RO'SIVE, a.
- Eating; wearing away; having the power of gradually wearing, consuming or impairing; as, corrosive sublimate; corrosive care; a corrosive ulcer.
- Having the quality of fretting or vexing. Corrosive sublimate, the corrosive muriate or perchloride of mercury.
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