Corrosive

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Having the quality of fretting or vexing.

II. Corrosive ·noun That which has the power of fretting or irritating.

III. Corrosive ·noun That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.

IV. Corrosive ·adj Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an Acid.