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111biting — a. 1. Pungent, piquant, hot, sharp, pep pery, burning, stinging, high flavored, high seasoned. 2. Severe, sarcastic, cutting, caustic. 3. Cold, freezing, nipping, piercing, blasting, blighting …
112corrosion — n. 1. Erosion, eating away. 2. Wasting, wearing away, consuming, gnawing away. 3. Blighting, poisoning, embittering …
113corrosive — a. 1. Corroding, consuming, eroding, erosive, catheretic, caustic, acrid, virulent, eating away. 2. Corroding, wasting, consuming, gnawing wearing. 3. Blighting, poisoning, envenoming, embittering, carking …
114destruction — noun 1) the destruction by allied bombers Syn: demolition, wrecking, ruination, blasting, bombing; wreckage, ruins 2) the destruction of the countryside Syn: devastation, ruination, blighting, disfigurement …
115blast — n blight, nip (see under BLAST vb) Analogous words: destruction (see corresponding verb at DESTROY): extermination, extirpation, wiping out (see corresponding verbs at EXTERMINATE): ruin, wreck (see RUIN vb) blast vb Blast, blight, nip mean as… …
116caustic — caustic, mordant, acrid, scathing are comparable when they mean stingingly incisive. Caustic usually implies a biting wit, a ready tongue or pen, and the power to drive disagreeable truths home { I really do not know what to do with my books, he… …
117cold — cold, cool, chilly, frigid, freezing, frosty, gelid, icy, glacial, arctic mean having a temperature below that which is normal or comfortable. Cold is the general term, often implying nothing more than a lack of warmth {a cold day} {a cold hand}… …
118wither — wither, shrivel, wizen mean to lose or cause to lose freshness and smoothness of appearance. Wither implies a loss of vital moisture (as sap or body fluids) with consequent fading or drying up and ultimate decay or death {withered leaves}… …
119disastrous — adj 1. catastrophic, calamitous, cataclysmic, cataclysmal; ruinous, destructive, destroying, devastating, demolishing; ravaging, desolating, blighting, withering; harrowing, dire, black, fatal. 2. crushing, disheartening; grievous, sore, hard to… …
120hurtful — adj 1. injurious, harmful, detrimental, inimical, deleterious, damaging, endamaging, mischievous; destructive, baneful, pernicious, noisome, noxious, disastrous, ruinous. 2. impairing, marring, spoiling, blighting, wounding, vitiating,… …
