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caustically
Variant of caustic
adjective
- that can burn, eat away, or destroy tissue by chemical action; corrosive
- cutting or sarcastic in utterance; biting
- designating or of the curved radial surface, or a plane curve in this surface, formed by the reflection or refraction of rays from a curved solid surface
noun
- any caustic substance, esp. caustic soda
- a caustic surface or curve
Related Forms:
- caustically adverb
- causticity noun
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