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Laxative synonyms

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relaxing
Having a quality whereby it is easy to relax when subjected to it
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  1. Having a quality whereby it is easy to relax when subjected to it
opening
Initial or introductory
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  1. Initial or introductory
purgative
(Capable of) purging
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  1. (Capable of) purging
  2. Tending to cleanse or purge, especially causing evacuation of the bowels.
  3. Causing bowel movement
diarrheal
That causes, or is associated with diarrhea.
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  1. That causes, or is associated with diarrhea.
diuretic
Increasing the excretion of urine
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  1. Increasing the excretion of urine
  2. Tending to increase the discharge of urine.
  3. A substance or drug that tends to increase the discharge of urine. Diuretics are used in the treatment of high blood pressure, edema, and other medical conditions.
cathartic
Inducing catharsis; purgative.
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  1. Inducing catharsis; purgative.
  2. Of or effecting catharsis; purging
  3. That releases emotional tension, especially after an overwhelming experience
physic
A medicine or remedy, esp. a laxative or cathartic
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  1. A medicine or remedy, esp. a laxative or cathartic
  2. (Archaic) The art or science of healing; medical science
  3. A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic.
aperient
A mild laxative.
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  1. A mild laxative.
  2. A laxative, either in the form of a medicine or a food such as hops or asparagus, which has the effect of moving the bowels, or aiding digestion and preventing constipation.
purgative
A purgative agent or medicine; a cathartic.
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  1. A purgative agent or medicine; a cathartic.
  2. A substance that purges; specif., a cathartic
  3. Something, such as a substance or medicine, that purges; laxative
diuretic
A diuretic drug or other substance
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  1. A diuretic drug or other substance
  2. A substance or drug that tends to increase the discharge of urine.
  3. A substance or drug that tends to increase the discharge of urine. Diuretics are used in the treatment of high blood pressure, edema, and other medical conditions.
cathartic
A laxative
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  1. A laxative
  2. A medicine for stimulating evacuation of the bowels; purgative
  3. An agent for purging the bowels, especially a laxative.
purge
Something that purges, especially a medicinal purgative.
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  1. Something that purges, especially a medicinal purgative.
  2. The process of ridding a nation, political party, etc. of individuals held to be disloyal or undesirable
  3. The act or process of purging:
medicament
An agent that promotes recovery from injury or ailment; a medicine.
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  1. An agent that promotes recovery from injury or ailment; a medicine.
  2. Medication
remedy
(Law) A means, as court action, by which violation of a right is prevented or compensated for; legal redress
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  1. (Law) A means, as court action, by which violation of a right is prevented or compensated for; legal redress
  2. Any medicine or treatment that cures, heals, or relieves a disease or bodily disorder or tends to restore health
  3. Something, such as a drug or a bandage, that is used to treat a symptom, disease, injury, or other condition.
cure
Spiritual charge of persons in a particular district; care of souls
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  1. Spiritual charge of persons in a particular district; care of souls
  2. The act or process of preserving a product.
  3. A method or course of treatment used to restore health.
specific
Something specially suited for a given use or purpose
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  1. Something specially suited for a given use or purpose
  2. A remedy intended for a particular ailment or disorder.
  3. A specific cure or remedy
dose
An ingredient added, especially to wine, to impart flavor or strength.
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  1. An ingredient added, especially to wine, to impart flavor or strength.
  2. An amount, especially of something unpleasant, to which one is subjected:
  3. The amount of radiation administered as therapy to a given site.
drench
Something that drenches:
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  1. Something that drenches:
  2. A large liquid dose, esp. for a sick animal
  3. A large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat.
Find another word for laxative. In this page you can discover 29 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for laxative, like: relaxing, loosening, opening, freeing, unbinding, purgative, purging, diarrheic, diarrheal, diuretic and unconstipative.

Sentence Examples

  • Internally, sulphur is a mild laxative, being converted in the intestine into sulphides.

  • On the French Alps a sweet exudation is found on the small branchlets of young larches in June and July, resembling manna in taste and laxative properties, and known as Manna de Briancon or Manna Brigantina; it occurs in small whitish irregular granular masses, which are removed in the morning before they are too much dried by the sun; this manna seems to differ little in composition from the sap of the tree, which also contains mannite; its cathartic powers are weaker than those of the manna of the manna ash (Fraximus ornus), but it is employed in France for the same purposes.

  • In the milder varieties of this complaint, such as those occurring sporadically, and where the symptoms are probably due to matters in the bowels setting up the dysenteric irritation, the employment of diaphoretic medicines is to be recommended, and the administration of such a laxative as castor oil, to which a small quantity of laudanum has been added, will often, by removing the source of the mischief, arrest the attack; but a method of treatment more to be recommended is the use of salines in large doses, such as one drachm of sodium sulphate from four to eight times a day.

  • Manna possesses mildly laxative properties, and on account of its sweet taste is employed as a mild aperient for children.

  • laxative called Picolax.

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