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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..

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..

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..

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.

Rust :: Rust (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.

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

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

Corrodiate :: Corrodiate (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to corrode.

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

Corrodent :: Corrodent (a.) Corrosive.

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

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

Begnaw :: Begnaw (v. t.) To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

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..

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