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Vitriol

noun

(H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry. Synonyms: oil of vitriol, sulfuric acid, sulphuric acid.

Abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will. Synonyms: invective, vituperation.

verb

(past & past part. vitrioled or vitriolled; pres. part. vitrioling or vitriolling)

Expose to the effects of vitriol or injure with vitriol.

Subject to bitter verbal abuse.

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... music-hall artiste," replied Marie. "At least, that is what the people say. I have not heard yet what hall she appears in. They say she is very pretty. Are you going to throw vitriol over her?" ...

— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy

... solution of caustic potassa; the former blackens cane sugar, but does not affect the starch sugar, while potassa darkens the color of starch sugar, but does not alter that of cane sugar. But the copper test is far more delicate. Add to the solution to be tested, a few drops of blue vitriol, and then a quantity of potassa solution, and apply heat; if the cane sugar is pure, the liquor will remain blue, while, if it be adulterated with starch sugar, it will ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... a diluted mineral acid; burnt alum; decoction of bark with white vitriol; tincture of ...

— North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 • Various

... fire. He heard the mysterious stranger drop from the coping of the wall and the sound of his swift feet. He stooped and picked up the article which had been thrown at him. It was a small bottle bearing a stained chemist's label and the word "Vitriol." ...

— The Daffodil Mystery • Edgar Wallace

... experience that they resented him: a circumstance which exposed him to a certain amount of baiting not unlike that which the village idiot receives at the hands of rustic boors—until Marcel learned to defend himself with a tongue which could distil vitriol from the vernacular, and with fists and feet as well. Thereafter he was left severely to himself and glad of it, since it furnished him with just so much more time for reading and ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

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