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Corrosive vs Stinging - What's the difference?

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Corrosive is a related term of stinging.


As adjectives the difference between corrosive and stinging

is that corrosive is eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid while stinging is having the capacity to sting.

As nouns the difference between corrosive and stinging

is that corrosive is that which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually while stinging is the act by which someone receives a sting.

As a verb stinging is

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corrosive

English

(wikipedia corrosive)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, hanging, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as the corrosive action of an acid.
  • Having the quality of fretting or vexing.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Care is no cure, but corrosive .
  • destroying or undermining something gradually

    • Related terms

    * corrosively * corrosiveness * corrosivity * corrode

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which has the quality of eating or wearing away gradually.
  • Any solid, liquid or gas capable of irreparably harming living tissues or damaging material on contact.

    • stinging

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the capacity to sting.
    • stinging nettles

    Verb

    (head)
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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which someone receives a sting.
    • the stingings of scorpions
    stingings of remorse