Purgative is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PURGATIVE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a medicine that empties the intestines
• a laxative
• a thing that rids one of unwanted feelings or memories
• A purging medicine; a cathartic.
• a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
• medicine for emptying the bowels
ADJECTIVE:
• serving to purge
• strongly laxative in effect.
• having the effect of ridding one of unwanted feelings or memories
• (medicine) designed to cause defecation
• Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• purging or tending to purge

Words related to PURGATIVE

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Words that contain PURGATIVE

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How to use PURGATIVE in a sentence

• Beetroot has a refreshing, composing, and slightly purgative quality.
• He leaves us a full account of his purgative stage.
• The bark, leaves, and flowers, abound with a bitter secretion, of a purgative and rather dangerous quality, than which nothing can be more distinct from the gum.
• On experiment it was found to be moderately purgative, but painful to the intestines in its operation.
• The fruit has strong purgative properties, and the bark yields a yellow dye.
• The fruits are purgative and yield a green dye when unripe.
• The original reputation of this herb was acquired because of its purgative properties, which enabled it to carry off black bile which was causing insanity.
• It contains a resinous, purgative principle, and is known to country folk as a safe, active purge.
• A weak infusion of the whole plant with boiling water makes a simple and easy purgative dose, but a strong infusion will act as an emetic.
• Dioscorides praised it for weak and inflamed eyes, but in large doses it is emetic and purgative.
• One writer tells us that it was hastened by a strong purgative dose, administered by his father’s orders, and that he was really assassinated.
• It has this name also because it quickens the action of the bowels of cattle and so is fed to them as a purgative.
• Fever grass is a purgative when taken in the form of a tea.
• In forty-eight hours it returns again to its purgative state, which interval is employed in drinking most copiously, until overtaken by insensibility and intoxication.
• In the hope of administering a purgative, I bought whole fields of green corn, and turned the sick and dying cattle into them.
• The dose, when intended as a purgative, is from a scruple to a dram or more.
• I never found it do much service, except when it proved gently purgative.
• The berries of this plant are likewise purgative, but less virulent than the other parts.
• The oil acts as an irritant purgative in the dose of one drop.
• He had never spoken so since his coming four years before, except once when he was in the purgative way, and the fiend came to him under aspect of a woman.

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