[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That corrodes, corrosive. a. lit. b. fig.

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1605.  Timme, Quersit., I. vii. 29. A most sharpe oyle … most corroding and fretting.

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1632.  B. Jonson, Magn. Lady, IV. iii. Envious sir Moth,… Thou shew’st thyself a true corroding vermin.

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1768.  Beattie, Minstr., II. xiv. So gnaw’d the viper the corroding file.

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  b.  1619.  H. Hutton, Follies Anat. (Percy Soc.), 12. O subtle tyrant, whose corroding hate [etc.].

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., VIII. 163. Steal from corroding care one transient day.

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1876.  Mozley, Univ. Serm., iv. (1877), 92. Unconscious … of a corroding sin within them.

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