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adjective:- with the capacity of burning up, corroding, dissolving, or consuming away by chemical action.
- Corrosive and bitingly trenchant; cutting. See Synonyms at sarcastic.
- Causing a burning or stinging feeling, as from intense emotion: "First And Foremost, there is caustic shame for personal stupidity” ( Scott Turow).
- Capable of burning, corroding or destroying natural muscle
- razor-sharp, sour, cutting, biting, sarcastic
- with the capacity of destroying the texture of any such thing or consuming away its material by chemical activity; burning; corrosive; searing.
- serious; satirical; razor-sharp.
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- of a substance, particularly a strong acid; effective at destroying or eating away by chemical action
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noun:- A caustic material or compound.
- A hydroxide of a light material.
- The enveloping surface created by light rays reflecting or refracting from a curved area, especially one with spherical aberration.
- Any compound or means which, applied to animal or any other organic muscle, burns off, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for certain area or object.
- The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for confirmed bend.
- caustic soda
- Any compound or means which, placed on animal or any other organic muscle, burns off, corrodes, or kills it by chemical activity; an escharotic.
- A caustic curve or caustic area.
- any chemical substance that burns off or destroys residing muscle
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others:- with the capacity of burning up, corroding, or destroying the tissue of animal substances. See causticity.
- Figuratively, severely vital or sarcastic; cutting: as, a caustic remark.
- The curved area to which all rays of a conical pen of light entering a refractive medium tend to be tangential.
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