adj
Meaning 1
purging
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: capable of
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
purgative
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noun
Meaning 2
something, such as a substance or medicine, that purges; laxative
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective satellite
Meaning 3
strongly laxative
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cathartic, evacuant
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cathartic, physic, aperient
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
Narrower terms: aloes, bitter aloes, castor oil, Epsom salts, laxative, milk of magnesia, Seidlitz powder, Seidlitz powders, Rochelle powder
History
Etymology
From Middle French purgatif.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: разслабителен (razslabitelen) — capable of purging
- Bulgarian: очистителен (očistitelen) — capable of purging
- Catalan: purgatiu — capable of purging
- Finnish: puhdistava — capable of purging
- Ancient Greek: καθαρτικός (kathartikós) — capable of purging
- Latin: purgativus — capable of purging
- Spanish: purgativo — capable of purging
- Turkish: müshil — capable of purging
- Bulgarian: разслабително (razslabitelno) — something that purges
- Dutch: purgeermiddel — something that purges
- Dutch: laxeermiddel — something that purges
- Finnish: purgatiivi — something that purges
- Finnish: laksatiivi — something that purges
- Finnish: ulostusaine — something that purges
- Finnish: ulostuslääke — something that purges
- Finnish: puhdistusaine — something that purges
- Greek: καθαρτικό (kathartikó) — something that purges
- Ancient Greek: καθαρτικόν (kathartikón) — something that purges
- Italian: purgante — something that purges
- Norman: purge — something that purges
- Spanish: purgante — something that purges
- Tocharian B: tälpālle — something that purges
- Turkish: müshil — something that purges