Dissolvent [adjective]
Definition of Dissolvent:
having acidic, corrosive properties
Sentence/Example of Dissolvent:
Drink water by pailfuls: it is a universal dissolvent; water liquefies all the salts.
Let us trace the disastrous effects of these three dissolvent forces.
The flesh is white, delicate, partly translucent, easy for our stomachs to digest and no less suited to the grub's dissolvent.
The dream was agonizing as he tried one dissolvent after another without success.
It is enough here to remind ourselves how serious a place is held by that work in the dissolvent literature of the generation.
This it is that most shakes our vital desire and most intensifies the dissolvent efficacy of reason.
He, however, was to learn that there is no greater dissolvent of rancor than intelligent curiosity.
The stomach has a dissolvent that causes hunger, and puts man in mind of his want of food.
It may be that it was beginning to exert its usual dissolvent effect.
To him it was a dissolvent of greater or less activity, according to the nature of the individual in whom it worked.