vitriolize
Verb

vitriolize (vitriolizes, present participle vitriolizing; past and past participle vitriolized)

  1. (transitive, dated) To convert into a vitriol; to vitriolate.
  2. (transitive, dated) To injure (a person) with sulphuric acid, as by throwing it upon the face.
  3. (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.”



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