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Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.

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  1. a. Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.
  2. n. A purging medicine; a cathartic.
  3. adj. strongly laxative
  4. n. a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
  5. Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic. -- n. (Med.) A purging medicine; a cathartic.
  6. Having the power or quality of purging; cathartic.-- n. (Med.)
  7. j:54/n:46 n. a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels