corrodant

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English

Adjective

corrodant (comparative more corrodant, superlative most corrodant)

  1. (rare) corrodent, corrosive
    • 1833, William Cobbett, A New French and English Dictionary, in Two Parts, Part I: French and English, page 104:
      Corrodant, adj. corrodant, having the power of corroding or wasting by degrees, corrosive.

Noun

corrodant (plural corrodants)

  1. (rare) A corrosive agent; a corrodent.
    • 1835, Thomas Greene Fessenden, editor, The New England Farmer, XIII, № 5, page 37/3:
      I understand that a complete transmutation takes place in the iron; it gradually becomes incrusted with the copper, whilst at the same time the acids act as a corrodant; so that a piece of iron thrown in, after a certain time, comes out copper, but whether weight for weight, or size for size, I do not recollect.

French

Pronunciation

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Participle

corrodant

  1. present participle of corroder

Further reading

Latin

Verb

corrōdant

  1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of corrōdō