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Painful is a related term of corroding.


As an adjective painful

is causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.

As a verb corroding is

.

As a noun corroding is

corrosion.

painful

Alternative forms

* painfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
  • Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
  • Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
  • * 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 142:
  • The men bestow their times in fishing, hunting, warres, and such manlike exercises, scorning to be seene in any woman-like exercise, which is the cause that the women be very painefull , and the men often idle.
  • * 1843 , , Book 2, Ch. 2
  • For twenty generations, here was the earthly arena where painful living men worked out their life-wrestle

    Synonyms

    * (full of pain) doleful, sorrowful, irksome, annoying * (requiring labor or toil) laborious, exerting

    Antonyms

    * (causing pain) painless, painfree

    Derived terms

    * painfully * painfulness

    corroding

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • corrosion
  • * 1823 , Timothy Dwight, Travels in New-England and New-York (page 269)
  • My companions ate merely to satisfy the corrodings of hunger. I fasted till after three the succeeding morning.