purgative
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gə adjective
1.
purging or cleansing, especially by causing evacuation of the bowels.
noun
2.
a purgative medicine or agent; cathartic.
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | a drug or agent for purging the bowels |
| —adj | |
| 2. | causing evacuation of the bowels; cathartic |
| 'purgatively | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
purgative
c.1400 (adj.), from O.Fr. purgatif (14c.), from L.L. purgativus, from L. purgatus, pp. of purgare (see purge). The noun is attested from 1626.
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Medical Dictionary
purgative pur·ga·tive (pûr'gə-tĭv)
n.
An agent used for purging the bowels. adj.
Tending to cause evacuation of the bowels.
pur'ga·tive adj.
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Example sentences
Their prescription is not a sugar-coated elixir but a purgative tonic.
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