Astringent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASTRINGENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an astringent agent or substance
• an astringent lotion applied to the skin to reduce bleeding from minor abrasions or as a cosmetic to make the skin less oily.
• A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
• a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
ADJECTIVE:
• contracting, drawing together
• causing the contraction of skin cells and other body tissues
• sharp or severe in manner or style
• (of taste or smell) sharp or bitter
• Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
• Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
• sour or bitter in taste
• tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• causing contraction of soft organic tissues; styptic, puckery

Words related to ASTRINGENT

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Words that contain ASTRINGENT

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How to use ASTRINGENT in a sentence

• It has a pleasantly astringent, acorn-like taste, this strong Oak-wine, as I find on tapping them with my knife.
• If it stands too long, or is boiled, more indeed is got out of it, but an astringent, disagreeable drink is the result.
• His character was like the bark of the cinnamon, a rough and astringent rind without, and an intense sweetness within.
• Tannin is a powerful astringent substance to tan skins into leather.
• From them we stole refreshment, and did not find the waters mineral and astringent, as Mr.
• Nothing could have been more prosaic, more sane, more astringent.
• In fact, in a big prison, astringent medicines are served out regularly by the warders as a matter of course.
• Of how much it needed the tonic properties of that astringent pen it was of course unaware.
• I can give you an astringent mixture that will shrink the chords, and may relieve some of the inflammation.
• The leaves are astringent, and useful for healing sores when applied thereto, and for dressing wounds.
• In Germany a conserve of Raspberries which has astringent effects is concocted with two parts of sugar to one of juice expressed from the fruit.
• All parts of the plant have a strong-scented odour, and a warm, bitter, astringent taste.
• But, except in mild cases, other more positively astringent herbs are to be preferred.
• Its flowers are crimson, and its bark is astringent.
• In Paris the astringent stage of suspicion and mistrust is as quick to declare itself as the expansive flow of confidence is slow in gathering way.
• It possesses a strongly astringent and penetrating quality, and requires great skill in the use of it, to avoid doing considerable mischief.
• The rind is strongly astringent, and often used as a medicine.
• The fruit is a fine acid, and is much used by the common people, mixed with other fruits less astringent and acid, to flavour made wines.
• This has been long held in great estimation as an astringent.
• But besides producing a nasty flavour in the water, if used in any quantity, the astringent alum tends to produce disagreeable effects internally.
• Hale of New Hampshire was here, an astringent personality, eager to challenge young Douglas from Illinois.

Similar words containing ASTRING without suffix ent

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