Sample Sentences for
corrosive
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    Magnesium slows the corrosive effects of salt water on the iron.
    corrosive = causing damage
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    It's a corrosive gas, like fluorine, which is used to etch glass.  (source)
    corrosive = gradually damaging on contact
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    Disappointment was as dark and corrosive in her as the Black Thing.  (source)
    corrosive = damaging or harmful
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    It's not corrosive. I think it was meant to either suffocate or poison us.  (source)
    corrosive = damaging on contact
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    She's responsible for plagues, sickness, and catastrophes; she's immune to fire, radiation, toxins, corrosives, disease, and aging.†  (source)
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    The stylus wrote in a noncorrosive, alcohol-based fluorescent ink that was visible only under black light.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncorrosive means not and reverses the meaning of corrosive. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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    Dorothea accused herself of some meanness in this timidity: it was always odious to her to have any small fears or contrivances about her actions, but at this moment she was seeking the highest aid possible that she might not dread the corrosiveness of Celia's pretty carnally minded prose.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    He was a small, skinny, clean-shaven man, and so ugly—caustically, one could almost say corrosively, ugly—that the cousins were astonished.†  (source)
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    ...the skunk had snapped its rear end up, curved the tail over, and sprayed Brian with a direct shot.... The corrosive spray that hit his face seared into his lungs and eyes, blinding him.  (source)
    corrosive = harmful chemical
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    I imagined she would have already hosed us down with acid if she weren't worried about the long-term effects of corrosives on her larvae.†  (source)
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    STEPHEN: (Panting) His noncorrosive sublimate!†  (source)
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    He started thinking about the properties of wood and the corrosiveness of salt water.†  (source)
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    But I've heard Loki's bonds are quite hard to break, being iron-hardened guts—strong, sticky, and corrosive. They will dull any sword, even the sharpest. You could perhaps cut one bond with Sumarbrander, but after that the blade would be useless.  (source)
    corrosive = damaging on contact
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