Thesaurus: astringent

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1. a. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.
2. a. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
3. n. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
4. adj. sour or bitter in taste
5. adj. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue
6. n. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals
7. 1. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit. 2. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison.
8. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in thesoft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison.
9. j:56/n:44 n. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals a. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue