vitriolize
verbEtymology Compare French vitrioliser.
1
Dated To convert into a vitriol.
2
Dated To injure (a person) with sulfuric acid, as by throwing it upon the face.
3
Dated To 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:
- Related terms
- acid attack