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Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.

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  1. a. Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives.
  2. n. A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
  3. adj. forceful and extreme and rigorous
  4. Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposed to bland; as, drastic purgatives. -- n. (Med.) A violent purgative. See Cathartic.
  5. Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposedto bland; as, drastic purgatives.-- n. (Med.)
  6. j:100 s. forceful and extreme and rigorous