catheretic

adjective

Roget 830: causing pain, hurting etc. v.; hurtful etc. (bad) 649; painful; dolorific^†, dolorous; unpleasant; unpleasing, displeasing; disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful; uninviting; unwelcome; undesirable, undesired; obnoxious; unacceptable, unpopular, thankless.    unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable.    distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless; dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic.    irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling; unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious; troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome; plaguing, plaguy^†; awkward.    importunate; teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking.    intolerable, insufferable, insupportable; unbearable, unendurable; past bearing; not to be borne, not to be endured; more than flesh and blood can bear; enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot.    shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending.    odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent; horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying; offensive.    nauseous, nauseating; disgusting, sickening, revolting; nasty; loathsome, loathful^†; fulsome; vile etc. (bad) 649; hideous etc. 846.    sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic; cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing; envenomed; catheretic^†, pyrotic [Med.].    ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical; desolating, withering; burdensome, onerous, oppressive; cumbrous, cumbersome.    ... show more

noun

Roget 384: increase of temperature; heating etc. v.; calefaction^†, tepefaction^†, torrefaction^†; melting, fusion; liquefaction etc. 335; burning etc. v.; ambustion^†, combustion; incension^†, accension^†; concremation^†, cremation; scorification^†; cautery, cauterization; ustulation^†, calcination; cracking, refining; incineration, cineration^†; carbonization; cupellation [Chem].    ignition, inflammation, adustion^†, flagration^†; deflagration, conflagration; empyrosis^†, incendiarism; arson; auto dafe [Fr.].    boiling etc. v.; coction^†, ebullition, estuation^†, elixation^†, decoction; ebullioscope^†; geyser; distillation (vaporization) 336.    furnace etc. 386; blanket, flannel, fur; wadding etc. (lining) 224; clothing etc. 225.    still; refinery; fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking tower.    match etc. (fuel) 388; incendiary; petroleuse [Fr.]; [biological effects resembling the effects of heat] [substances causing a burning sensation and damage on skin or tissue] cauterizer^†; caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem^†, moxa^†; acid, aqua fortis [Lat.], aqua regia; catheretic^†, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid; radioactivity, gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium, plutonium, radon, radium.    sunstroke, coup de soleil [Fr.]; insolation.    [artifacts requiring heat in their manufacture] pottery, ceramics, crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra cotta [Sp.], brick, clinker.    [products of combustion] cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot; slag.    [products of heating organic materials] coke, carbon, charcoal; wood alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil; gasoline, kerosene, naptha, fuel oil (fuel) 388; wax, paraffin; residue, tar.    inflammability, combustibility.    [Transmission of heat] diathermancy^†, transcalency^†, conduction; convection; radiation, radiant heat; heat conductivity, conductivity.    [effects of heat 2] thermal expansion; coefficient of expansion.    ... show more

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