vitriolize
English
Etymology
Compare French vitrioliser.
Verb
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- (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)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vitriolize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)