Having the quality of eating away or consuming by chemical action: said of acids, etc.

That cankers (in various senses); corroding, corrupting; spreading harmfully and insidiously. Now chiefly figurative.

Tending to corrode.

Burning, corrosive, destructive of organic tissue.

= corrosive, adj. (literal and figurative)

Of a substance: corrosive. Also in figurative context.

That corrodes, corrosive. literal.

Corrosive.

That burns like vitriol; corrosive. Obsolete.

Corroding, corrosive.

Chemistry. Of a substance: that tends to attack and alter the structure of other substances; corrosive.