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Cautery :: Cautery (n.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue..

Erode :: Erode (v. t.) To eat into or away; to corrode; as, canker erodes the flesh..

Exulcerate :: Exulcerate (v. t. & i.) To corrode; to fret; to chafe; to inflame.

Acrimony :: Acrimony (n.) A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants..

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic..

Corrodent :: Corrodent (a.) Corrosive.

Corrode :: Corrode (v. i.) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

#NAME? :: -ent () An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant..

Canker :: Canker (n.) Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroy..

Corrodent :: Corrodent (n.) Anything that corrodes.

Stopple :: Stopping-out (n.) A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts..

Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear..

Iron-sick :: Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

Etch :: Etch (v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid..

Corroded :: Corroded (imp. & p. p.) of Corrod.

Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

Corrodible :: Corrodible (a.) Capable of being corroded; corrosible.

Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.

Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali..

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