caustic
- Adjective. Capable of burning, corroding or destroying organic tissue.
- Adjective. (context, of language etc) sharp, bitter, cutting, biting, sarcastic.
- Noun. Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.
- Noun. (context, optics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- Noun. (mathematics) The envelope of reflected or refracted rays for a given curve.
- Noun. (context, informal) caustic soda.
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