- scathing criticism - Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing,
changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the
corrosive action of an acid. - Having the quality of fretting or vexing. - That which has the quality of eating or wearing away
gradually. - That which has the power of fretting or irritating.
- Bitterness - Scathing criticism - sulphuric acid - A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron,
zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster. - Sulphuric acid; -- called also oil of vitriol. So called
because first made by the distillation of green vitriol. See Sulphuric
acid, under Sulphuric.