vitriolize
Verb
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Verb
vitriolize (vitriolizes, present participle vitriolizing; past and past participle vitriolized)
- (transitive, dated) To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.
- (transitive, dated) To injure (a person) with sulphuric acid, as by throwing it upon the face.
- (transitive, dated) To poison with vitriol.
- 2008, Lincoln Geraghty, Mark Jancovich, The Shifting Definitions of Genre (page 99)
- Similarly, Something for Everyone was described as “an innocent seeming piece of Bavarian chocolate that has been vitriolized by hypodermic injection.”
- 2008, Lincoln Geraghty, Mark Jancovich, The Shifting Definitions of Genre (page 99)
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