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Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.

Iron-sick :: Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

Etch :: Etch (v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid..

Corrode :: Corrode (v. i.) To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.

Rust :: Rust (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.

Corrodent :: Corrodent (n.) Anything that corrodes.

#NAME? :: -ent () An adjective suffix signifying action or being; as, corrodent, excellent, emergent, continent, quiescent. See -ant..

Canker :: Canker (v. t.) To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.

Corrode :: Corrode (v. t.) To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.

Eat :: Eat (v. t.) To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear..

Incorrodible :: Incorrodible (a.) Incapable of being corroded, consumed, or eaten away..

Begnaw :: Begnaw (v. t.) To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode.

Acrimony :: Acrimony (n.) A quality of bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants..

Caustic :: Caustic (a.) Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic..

Corrodible :: Corrodible (a.) Capable of being corroded; corrosible.

Stopple :: Stopping-out (n.) A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts..

Corroded :: Corroded (imp. & p. p.) of Corrod.

Corrodent :: Corrodent (a.) Corrosive.

Corrodiate :: Corrodiate (v. t.) To eat away by degrees; to corrode.

Cautery :: Cautery (n.) A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, or by application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroy animal tissue..

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