Reference  |  Soule's Synonymes  |  C  |  Copy to Counterfeit

C — Copy to Counterfeit (Part 5 of 11)

Correspondent, a.

    1. Adapted, suited, suiting, fitted, suitable, fitting, agreeable, conformable, answerable, corresponding.
    2. Corresponding, answering, correlative, belonging, counterposed, complemental, complementary.

Corresponding, a. Answering. See correspondent.

Corridor, n. Gallery, passage.

Corroborate, v. a. Strengthen, confirm, establish, sustain, support.

Corroboration, n. Confirmation.

Corroborative, a. Confirmatory, corroborating.

Corrode, v. a.

    1. Erode, canker, eat away.
    2. Consume, waste, wear away, prey upon, impair.
    3. Blight, poison, envenom, embitter.

Corroding, a. Caustic, catheretic. See corrosive.

Corrosion, n.

    1. Erosion, eating away.
    2. Wasting, wearing away, consuming, gnawing away.
    3. Blighting, poisoning, embittering.

Corrosive, a.

    1. Corroding, consuming, eroding, erosive, catheretic, caustic, acrid, virulent, eating away.
    2. Corroding, wasting, consuming, gnawing wearing.
    3. Blighting, poisoning, envenoming, embittering, carking.

Corrosive sublimate. Bi-chloride of mercury.

Corrosiveness, n. Causticity, acridness, virulence, acrimony.