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Ätzmittel — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • caustic adj Capable of burning or chemically eating away living tissue or other material.

Senses

Ätzmittel is used for these senses in English:

  • caustic Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

caustic — full definition

  1. adj Capable of burning or chemically eating away living tissue or other material.
  2. adj Harshly sarcastic or biting in tone.

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