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caustic
English
Etymology
From the Latin causticus (“burning”), from the Ancient Greek ????????? (kaustikós, “burning”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: kôs't?k, k?s't?k, IPA(key): /?k??st?k/, /?k?st?k/
- Rhymes: -??st?k
Adjective
caustic (comparative more caustic, superlative most caustic)
- Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
- (of language, etc.) Sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, and sarcastic in a scathing way.
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
- Madame Beck esteemed me learned and blue; Miss Fanshawe, caustic, ironic, and cynical
- c. 1930, W.H.Auden, "The Quest"
- though he came too late / To join the martyrs, there was still a place / Among the tempters for a caustic tongue / / To test the resolution of the young / With tales of the small failings of the great
- 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Synonyms
- (capable of destroying tissue): acidic, biting, burning, corrosive, searing
- (severe, sharp): bitchy, biting, catty, mordacious, nasty, sarcastic, scathing, sharp, spiteful, vitriolic
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
caustic (plural caustics)
- Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- (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.
- (informal, chemistry) Caustic soda.
Derived terms
- lunar caustic
Translations
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reeking
English
Alternative forms
- reekin (Geordie)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??i?k??/
- Rhymes: -i?k??
Verb
reeking
- present participle of reek
Adjective
reeking (not comparable)
- Totally stinking.
Translations
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- what are reeking hands
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