Meanings
verbvitriolize (third-person singular simple present vitriolizes, present participle vitriolizing, simple past and past participle vitriolized)
present singular third person vitriolizes · participle present vitriolizing · participle past vitriolized · past vitriolized
- datedtransitiveTo injure (a person) with sulfuric acid, as by throwing it upon the face.
- datedtransitiveTo poison with vitriol.
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
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo convert into a vitriol.
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Origin
Compare French vitrioliser.
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Chicago
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