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Word: caustic (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue
  • of language etc sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, sarcastic

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Noun:

  • Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
  • informal|chemistry caustic soda
  • optics|computer graphics The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
  • mathematics The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.

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