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Erosive   /ɪrˈoʊsɪv/   Listen
Erosive

adjective
1.
Wearing away by friction.
2.
Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action.  Synonyms: caustic, corrosive, mordant, vitriolic.





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"Erosive" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bahamas, were formerly covered with land; and that for a geological age waste has been going on, and, perhaps, subsidence. The coral polyp seems to be doing only desultory work, and that mostly on the northeast or Atlantic side of the islands; everywhere else it has abandoned the field to the erosive action of ...
— The Life of Christopher Columbus from his own Letters and Journals • Edward Everett Hale


Words linked to "Erosive" :   destructive, erode


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