Purgative Synonyms

pûrgə-tĭv
A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. physic
  2. emetic
  3. cathartic
  4. purge
  5. aperient
Of, relating to, or tending to eliminate
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. cathartic
  2. evacuant
  3. eliminative
  4. eliminatory
  5. evacuative
  6. excretory
Serving to purify of sin
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. expiatory
  2. lustral
  3. lustrative
  4. purgatorial
  5. purificatory

Words Related to Purgative

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. laxative
  2. keep
  3. clean
  4. religion
  5. diaphoretic
  6. antispasmodic
  7. carminative
  8. sudorific
  9. styptic
  10. expectorant
  11. demulcent
  12. vulnerary
  13. stomachic
  14. febrifuge
  15. vermifuge
  16. choleretic

Purgative Sentence Examples

  • Castor-oil should not be used as a purgative.

  • Hyphear is useful for fattening cattle if they are hardy enough to withstand the purgative effect it produces at first; viscum is medicinally of value as an emollient, and in cases of tumour, ulcers and the like.

  • Initially it was used externally to cure sores, and later drunk for its purgative qualities.

  • The root is strongly purgative (Lewis & Elvin-Lewis 1977).

  • Some of them, like the Kreuzbrunnen and the Ferdinandsbrunnen, contain alkaline-saline waters which resemble those of Carlsbad, except that they are cold and contain nearly twice the quantity of purgative salts.

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