purgative in English

adjective
1
strongly laxative in effect.
The laxative and purgative properties of Senna were discovered in the 9th century by the Arabs, who spread its use to Europe.
noun
1
a laxative.
Still, many people, obsessed with their bowels, continue to swell the profits of pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies by consuming purgatives regularly.

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1. Aperient definition, having a mild purgative or laxative effect

2. Prunes can have a purgative effect.

3. This oil has a purgative effect.

4. 3 synonyms for Aperient: cathartic, physic, purgative

5. 3 synonyms for Aperient: cathartic, physic, purgative

6. Causing evacuation, especially of the bowels; purgative.

7. He was given a purgative before the operation.

8. Cathartic Meaning: "purgative, purifying," from Latin Catharticus, from Greek kathartikos "fit for cleansing, purgative,"… See definitions of Cathartic.

9. It was colossal and magnificent-a purgative of national despair.

10. Calomel definition, a white, tasteless powder, Hg2Cl2, used chiefly as a purgative and fungicide

11. 13 synonyms for Cathartic: eliminative, eliminatory, evacuant, evacuative, excretory, purgative

12. Synonyms for Aperient include purgative, laxative, purging, cleansing, evacuant, cathartic, depurative, eccoprotic, lenitive and emetic

13. What does Cathartic mean? A medicine for stimulating evacuation of the bowels; purgative

14. The thesis has also analyzed the prescription mentality purgative recipes of warm nature.

15. The popular idea of recession as purgative - the hangover following an ill - and enduring emotional appeal.

16. Throughout Britain, thousands of teenagers, offered a rude purgative to royal overkill, chorused a noisy amen.

17. The doctors attempted to reduce his high fever by inducing diarrhea with a purgative.

18. Take some purgative and it will help you purge your bowels of bad matter.

19. The thorn apple has a strong purgative –it makes you go to the toilet.

20. • Throughout Britain, thousands of teenagers, offered a rude purgative to royal overkill, Chorused a noisy amen

21. One was to bring down the fever , another a purgative, the third to an acid condition.

22. Aperient, evacuant, physic, psychotherapeutic, purgative, applying Chinese herbs on umbilicus is more effective than use of cathartic or clysis

23. The popular idea of recession as purgative an ill - judged binge - has a strong and enduring emotional appeal.

24. Calomel: A white or brown tasteless powder, Hg 2 Cl 2 , used as an insecticide and formerly as a purgative.

25. Haritaki is an Aperient, astringent, cardiotonic, carminative, fungicide, laxative, tonic, demulcent, purgative, alterative, febrifuge, anti-asthmatic and anti-dysenteric

26. Ricinolein is the active principle in the use of castor oil as a purgative and solvent for several medically useful alkaloids.

27. Objective: To establish a method suitable to determine the purgative biopotency of rhubarb and construct a new quality evaluation pattern of rhubarb.

28. Bryony definition, any Old World vine or climbing plant belonging to the genus Bryonia, of the gourd family, yielding acrid juice having emetic and purgative properties

29. Efficiency of degassing and slag-removing for several refining techniques was compared through experiments and a kind of well purgative and effective dynamic vacuum refining technique is established.

30. Aloes is the purgative in general uses for horses, it is also used in veterinary practice as a bitter tonic in small doses, and externally as a stimulant and desiccant

31. Definition of Calomel : a white tasteless compound Hg2Cl2 used especially as a component of laboratory electrodes, as a fungicide, and formerly in medicine as a purgative — called also mercurous chloride Examples of Calomel in a Sentence

32. Socrates describes the purgative effect of reducing someone to Aporia: it shows someone who merely thought he knew something that he does not in fact know it and instills in him a desire to

33. (Note: See Bryonies for more definitions.) Quick definitions from WordNet (bryony) noun: a tendril-bearing vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties Also see Bryonies Words similar to bryony