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EROSIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does erosive mean?
• EROSIVE (adjective)
The adjective EROSIVE has 2 senses:
1. wearing away by friction
2. of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
Familiarity information: EROSIVE used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wearing away by friction
Context example:
the erosive effects of waves on the shoreline
Similar:
destructive (causing destruction or much damage)
Derivation:
erode (remove soil or rock)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action
Synonyms:
caustic; corrosive; erosive; mordant; vitriolic
Similar:
destructive (causing destruction or much damage)
Derivation:
erode (become ground down or deteriorate)
Context examples
A circumscribed inflammatory and necrotic erosive lesion in the mucosa surface of the ileum.
(Ileal Ulcer, NCI Thesaurus)
A circumscribed inflammatory and necrotic erosive lesion in the mucosa surface of the jejunum.
(Jejunal Ulcer, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder characterized by a circumscribed, inflammatory and necrotic erosive lesion on the mucosal surface of the stomach.
(Gastric Ulcer, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
A disorder characterized by a circumscribed, inflammatory and necrotic erosive lesion on the mucosal surface of the esophageal wall.
(Esophageal Ulcer, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
The process probably proceeds much more slowly on Titan than on Earth because, at 10 times Earth's distance from the sun, there is less energy to power erosive processes in the moon's atmosphere.
(Cassini Spies Titan's Tallest Peaks, NASA)
A circumscribed inflammatory and necrotic erosive lesion in the mucosa surface of the colon.
(Colonic Ulcer, NCI Thesaurus)
A disorder characterized by a circumscribed, inflammatory and necrotic erosive lesion on the mucosal surface of the duodenal wall.
(Duodenal Ulcer, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)
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