Definition of purgative in English:

purgative

adjective ˈpəːɡətɪvˈpərɡədɪv

1Strongly laxative in effect.
催泻的，通便的
Example sentencesExamples
- Chinese people have used it for over 2000 years as a purgative medicine, although some scientists consider it a medical enigma.
- This purgative application is generally thought to be safe and effective even for geriatric and pediatric use.
- Prepared rhubarb is used when one desires to enhance the blood moving or heat clearing effects of the herb, but minimize the purgative action.
- This also applies to some purgative herbs such as rhubarb and senna leaf.
- The laxative and purgative properties of Senna were discovered in the 9th century by the Arabs, who spread its use to Europe.
- Mention of health at the end of the entry on rhubarb brings to mind purgative powers, plus questions about possible health risks if a lot of rhubarb is eaten.
- If the fortunes made from purgative pills had been devoted to the hospitals which treat the victims of their abuse, the financial problems of the voluntary hospitals would have been solved.
- A paste of the roots mixed with milk works as a laxative but with violent cathartic effect compared to the purgative jalap Ipomoea purga from which the true and milder jalap is extracted.
- The purgative activity of RH appears to be due to rhein and the sennoside components.
- Bulimia nervosa can be difficult to identify because of extreme secrecy about binge eating and purgative behaviour.
- If he was indeed suffering from syphilitic symptoms such as burning joint pain and oozing ulcerations, then this portrait could represent a sort of purgative catharsis.
Synonyms
laxative, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant, purging
archaic eccoprotic
1. 1.1 Having the effect of ridding one of unwanted feelings or memories.
  〈喻〉净化的；清洗的；清除的
  the purgative action of language
  语言的净化作用。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is this purgative function of art to which Ernst Gombrich has appealed in his explication of the ‘grotesque.’
  Detoxification, in these narratives of spiritual struggle, counts as the long night of the soul: the body's purgative agony as it pours junk through all available orifices.
  Olympics have a habit of inducing these purgative phases in host cities.
  It was, therefore, to take a leading trait of character, in this instance the uncompromising, unbending business ethic of a London merchant, and to trace its damaging development and its ultimate, purgative downfall.
  The traditional vocabulary calls this the purgative path: We cleanse ourselves in order to keep God in our life.
  The savage stomping dance; the primitive, purgative rite; a music of cosmic rigour - you don't have to go far from the Cité de la Musique to find glaring precedents.
  Some of them prime your emotions, setting you up for a let down or a purgative, thundering crash.
  We seem to prefer the smile that conceals an inner deception to the honest purgative truth about ourselves.
  Prior to Election Day, there was a widespread belief that the outcome of the 2000 Election was a fluke, an aberration, that would correct itself, as a sort of natural purgative process, in 2004.
  Dreams carried great significance and were sought through fasting or other purgative ceremonies.
  What's really troubling about someone like Eminem is the very purgative nature of art.
  The need for purgative violence in order to recreate the self hearkens back to the ‘fiery zeale’ of the universal conflagration.
  What doesn't get manhandled out gets washed out with whatever purgative their employer prescribes.
  But when the six percussionists timidly clink their cymbals, it's hard to keep thinking they're high priests presiding over a purgative rite.
  Synonyms
  purging, purifying, cleansing, cleaning, releasing, relieving, freeing, delivering, exorcising, ridding

noun ˈpəːɡətɪvˈpərɡədɪv

1A laxative.
泻剂
a widely employed and useful purgative
Example sentencesExamples
- Mild oily purgatives like castor oil or bulk laxatives such as linseed or psyllium seeds are recommended.
- His mother then confessed to inducing the colitis with purgatives and twice giving him salt solutions nasogastrically.
- Still, many people, obsessed with their bowels, continue to swell the profits of pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies by consuming purgatives regularly.
- Triphala is widely regarded as a purgative and laxative but in fact it is considered a rasayana and rejuvenator.
- He advocated enemas, emetics, purgatives and sneezing powders.
- Some of its other traditional uses have been as a mild purgative for chronic constipation and for the treatment of swollen glands.
- In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings!
- In India, Nigella seeds are combined with various purgatives to allay gripping and colic and also help kill and expel parasites.
- Emphasizing elimination through the overuse of purgatives in an already deficient individual can further deplete the body's store of minerals and essential B vitamins as well as imbalance beneficial intestinal micro-organisms.
- Purgatives should be taken on an empty stomach.
- Napoleon had been treated for a long time with tartar emetics, and the day he died he had been given a huge dose of calomer as a purgative.
- Among the more traditional remedies for plague fever were the various organic purgatives, including phlebotomy, diaphoretics, diuretics, emetics, and laxatives.
- It is considered a purgative, or a drink to help digestion.
- Its low-calorie and high calcium content, and supposed medicinal benefits as a purgative, have brought a new generation of eaters.
- Castor Oil Plant, while the plant is poisonous, the expressed thick, viscid oil is used as a powerful laxative and purgative.
- Mercury, a purgative to clean the system, and quinine, to treat fever, can cause malaria and typhus sufferers to have symptoms that mimic typhoid and dysentery.
- He rejected other common medical practices of his day such as purgatives and emetics with opium and mercury-based calomel.
- Rush had given Lewis a list of rules for preserving health, which included prescription of purgatives.
- Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives.
- Medicinal rhubarbs, as a purgative, are among the most important drug plants of all time.
Synonyms
laxative, enema, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant
dated purge
archaic eccoprotic
1. 1.1 A thing that rids one of unwanted feelings or memories.
  〈喻〉净化的；清洗的；清除的
  confrontation would be a purgative
  对峙会起到清心的作用。

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French purgatif, -ive, from late Latin purgativus, from purgat- 'purified', from the verb purgare (see purge).

Definition of purgative in US English:

purgative

adjectiveˈpərɡədivˈpərɡədɪv

1Strongly laxative in effect.
催泻的，通便的
Example sentencesExamples
- A paste of the roots mixed with milk works as a laxative but with violent cathartic effect compared to the purgative jalap Ipomoea purga from which the true and milder jalap is extracted.
- If the fortunes made from purgative pills had been devoted to the hospitals which treat the victims of their abuse, the financial problems of the voluntary hospitals would have been solved.
- The laxative and purgative properties of Senna were discovered in the 9th century by the Arabs, who spread its use to Europe.
- Bulimia nervosa can be difficult to identify because of extreme secrecy about binge eating and purgative behaviour.
- This also applies to some purgative herbs such as rhubarb and senna leaf.
- Chinese people have used it for over 2000 years as a purgative medicine, although some scientists consider it a medical enigma.
- If he was indeed suffering from syphilitic symptoms such as burning joint pain and oozing ulcerations, then this portrait could represent a sort of purgative catharsis.
- This purgative application is generally thought to be safe and effective even for geriatric and pediatric use.
- Mention of health at the end of the entry on rhubarb brings to mind purgative powers, plus questions about possible health risks if a lot of rhubarb is eaten.
- Prepared rhubarb is used when one desires to enhance the blood moving or heat clearing effects of the herb, but minimize the purgative action.
- The purgative activity of RH appears to be due to rhein and the sennoside components.
Synonyms
laxative, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant, purging
1. 1.1 Having the effect of ridding someone of unwanted feelings or memories.
  〈喻〉净化的；清洗的；清除的
  the purgative action of language
  语言的净化作用。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dreams carried great significance and were sought through fasting or other purgative ceremonies.
  We seem to prefer the smile that conceals an inner deception to the honest purgative truth about ourselves.
  What doesn't get manhandled out gets washed out with whatever purgative their employer prescribes.
  It is this purgative function of art to which Ernst Gombrich has appealed in his explication of the ‘grotesque.’
  Olympics have a habit of inducing these purgative phases in host cities.
  Detoxification, in these narratives of spiritual struggle, counts as the long night of the soul: the body's purgative agony as it pours junk through all available orifices.
  It was, therefore, to take a leading trait of character, in this instance the uncompromising, unbending business ethic of a London merchant, and to trace its damaging development and its ultimate, purgative downfall.
  But when the six percussionists timidly clink their cymbals, it's hard to keep thinking they're high priests presiding over a purgative rite.
  The traditional vocabulary calls this the purgative path: We cleanse ourselves in order to keep God in our life.
  The need for purgative violence in order to recreate the self hearkens back to the ‘fiery zeale’ of the universal conflagration.
  Prior to Election Day, there was a widespread belief that the outcome of the 2000 Election was a fluke, an aberration, that would correct itself, as a sort of natural purgative process, in 2004.
  What's really troubling about someone like Eminem is the very purgative nature of art.
  The savage stomping dance; the primitive, purgative rite; a music of cosmic rigour - you don't have to go far from the Cité de la Musique to find glaring precedents.
  Some of them prime your emotions, setting you up for a let down or a purgative, thundering crash.
  Synonyms
  purging, purifying, cleansing, cleaning, releasing, relieving, freeing, delivering, exorcising, ridding

nounˈpərɡədivˈpərɡədɪv

1A laxative.
泻剂
Example sentencesExamples
- He advocated enemas, emetics, purgatives and sneezing powders.
- Mercury, a purgative to clean the system, and quinine, to treat fever, can cause malaria and typhus sufferers to have symptoms that mimic typhoid and dysentery.
- It is considered a purgative, or a drink to help digestion.
- He rejected other common medical practices of his day such as purgatives and emetics with opium and mercury-based calomel.
- Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives.
- Castor Oil Plant, while the plant is poisonous, the expressed thick, viscid oil is used as a powerful laxative and purgative.
- Its low-calorie and high calcium content, and supposed medicinal benefits as a purgative, have brought a new generation of eaters.
- Medicinal rhubarbs, as a purgative, are among the most important drug plants of all time.
- Mild oily purgatives like castor oil or bulk laxatives such as linseed or psyllium seeds are recommended.
- His mother then confessed to inducing the colitis with purgatives and twice giving him salt solutions nasogastrically.
- Among the more traditional remedies for plague fever were the various organic purgatives, including phlebotomy, diaphoretics, diuretics, emetics, and laxatives.
- In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings!
- Napoleon had been treated for a long time with tartar emetics, and the day he died he had been given a huge dose of calomer as a purgative.
- Some of its other traditional uses have been as a mild purgative for chronic constipation and for the treatment of swollen glands.
- Triphala is widely regarded as a purgative and laxative but in fact it is considered a rasayana and rejuvenator.
- Purgatives should be taken on an empty stomach.
- Still, many people, obsessed with their bowels, continue to swell the profits of pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies by consuming purgatives regularly.
- Rush had given Lewis a list of rules for preserving health, which included prescription of purgatives.
- Emphasizing elimination through the overuse of purgatives in an already deficient individual can further deplete the body's store of minerals and essential B vitamins as well as imbalance beneficial intestinal micro-organisms.
- In India, Nigella seeds are combined with various purgatives to allay gripping and colic and also help kill and expel parasites.
Synonyms
laxative, enema, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant
1. 1.1 A thing that rids someone of unwanted feelings or memories.
  〈喻〉净化的；清洗的；清除的
  confrontation would be a purgative
  对峙会起到清心的作用。

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French purgatif, -ive, from late Latin purgativus, from purgat- ‘purified’, from the verb purgare (see purge).

词汇	purgative
释义	Definition of purgative in English: purgative adjective ˈpəːɡətɪvˈpərɡədɪv 1Strongly laxative in effect. 催泻的，通便的 Example sentencesExamples Chinese people have used it for over 2000 years as a purgative medicine, although some scientists consider it a medical enigma. This purgative application is generally thought to be safe and effective even for geriatric and pediatric use. Prepared rhubarb is used when one desires to enhance the blood moving or heat clearing effects of the herb, but minimize the purgative action. This also applies to some purgative herbs such as rhubarb and senna leaf. The laxative and purgative properties of Senna were discovered in the 9th century by the Arabs, who spread its use to Europe. Mention of health at the end of the entry on rhubarb brings to mind purgative powers, plus questions about possible health risks if a lot of rhubarb is eaten. If the fortunes made from purgative pills had been devoted to the hospitals which treat the victims of their abuse, the financial problems of the voluntary hospitals would have been solved. A paste of the roots mixed with milk works as a laxative but with violent cathartic effect compared to the purgative jalap Ipomoea purga from which the true and milder jalap is extracted. The purgative activity of RH appears to be due to rhein and the sennoside components. Bulimia nervosa can be difficult to identify because of extreme secrecy about binge eating and purgative behaviour. If he was indeed suffering from syphilitic symptoms such as burning joint pain and oozing ulcerations, then this portrait could represent a sort of purgative catharsis. Synonyms laxative, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant, purging archaic eccoprotic 1.1 Having the effect of ridding one of unwanted feelings or memories. 〈喻〉净化的；清洗的；清除的 the purgative action of language 语言的净化作用。 Example sentencesExamples It is this purgative function of art to which Ernst Gombrich has appealed in his explication of the ‘grotesque.’ Detoxification, in these narratives of spiritual struggle, counts as the long night of the soul: the body's purgative agony as it pours junk through all available orifices. Olympics have a habit of inducing these purgative phases in host cities. It was, therefore, to take a leading trait of character, in this instance the uncompromising, unbending business ethic of a London merchant, and to trace its damaging development and its ultimate, purgative downfall. The traditional vocabulary calls this the purgative path: We cleanse ourselves in order to keep God in our life. The savage stomping dance; the primitive, purgative rite; a music of cosmic rigour - you don't have to go far from the Cité de la Musique to find glaring precedents. Some of them prime your emotions, setting you up for a let down or a purgative, thundering crash. We seem to prefer the smile that conceals an inner deception to the honest purgative truth about ourselves. Prior to Election Day, there was a widespread belief that the outcome of the 2000 Election was a fluke, an aberration, that would correct itself, as a sort of natural purgative process, in 2004. Dreams carried great significance and were sought through fasting or other purgative ceremonies. What's really troubling about someone like Eminem is the very purgative nature of art. The need for purgative violence in order to recreate the self hearkens back to the ‘fiery zeale’ of the universal conflagration. What doesn't get manhandled out gets washed out with whatever purgative their employer prescribes. But when the six percussionists timidly clink their cymbals, it's hard to keep thinking they're high priests presiding over a purgative rite. Synonyms purging, purifying, cleansing, cleaning, releasing, relieving, freeing, delivering, exorcising, ridding noun ˈpəːɡətɪvˈpərɡədɪv 1A laxative. 泻剂 a widely employed and useful purgative Example sentencesExamples Mild oily purgatives like castor oil or bulk laxatives such as linseed or psyllium seeds are recommended. His mother then confessed to inducing the colitis with purgatives and twice giving him salt solutions nasogastrically. Still, many people, obsessed with their bowels, continue to swell the profits of pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies by consuming purgatives regularly. Triphala is widely regarded as a purgative and laxative but in fact it is considered a rasayana and rejuvenator. He advocated enemas, emetics, purgatives and sneezing powders. Some of its other traditional uses have been as a mild purgative for chronic constipation and for the treatment of swollen glands. In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings! In India, Nigella seeds are combined with various purgatives to allay gripping and colic and also help kill and expel parasites. Emphasizing elimination through the overuse of purgatives in an already deficient individual can further deplete the body's store of minerals and essential B vitamins as well as imbalance beneficial intestinal micro-organisms. Purgatives should be taken on an empty stomach. Napoleon had been treated for a long time with tartar emetics, and the day he died he had been given a huge dose of calomer as a purgative. Among the more traditional remedies for plague fever were the various organic purgatives, including phlebotomy, diaphoretics, diuretics, emetics, and laxatives. It is considered a purgative, or a drink to help digestion. Its low-calorie and high calcium content, and supposed medicinal benefits as a purgative, have brought a new generation of eaters. Castor Oil Plant, while the plant is poisonous, the expressed thick, viscid oil is used as a powerful laxative and purgative. Mercury, a purgative to clean the system, and quinine, to treat fever, can cause malaria and typhus sufferers to have symptoms that mimic typhoid and dysentery. He rejected other common medical practices of his day such as purgatives and emetics with opium and mercury-based calomel. Rush had given Lewis a list of rules for preserving health, which included prescription of purgatives. Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives. Medicinal rhubarbs, as a purgative, are among the most important drug plants of all time. Synonyms laxative, enema, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant dated purge archaic eccoprotic 1.1 A thing that rids one of unwanted feelings or memories. 〈喻〉净化的；清洗的；清除的 confrontation would be a purgative 对峙会起到清心的作用。 Origin Late Middle English: from Old French purgatif, -ive, from late Latin purgativus, from purgat- 'purified', from the verb purgare (see purge). Definition of purgative in US English: purgative adjectiveˈpərɡədivˈpərɡədɪv 1Strongly laxative in effect. 催泻的，通便的 Example sentencesExamples A paste of the roots mixed with milk works as a laxative but with violent cathartic effect compared to the purgative jalap Ipomoea purga from which the true and milder jalap is extracted. If the fortunes made from purgative pills had been devoted to the hospitals which treat the victims of their abuse, the financial problems of the voluntary hospitals would have been solved. The laxative and purgative properties of Senna were discovered in the 9th century by the Arabs, who spread its use to Europe. Bulimia nervosa can be difficult to identify because of extreme secrecy about binge eating and purgative behaviour. This also applies to some purgative herbs such as rhubarb and senna leaf. Chinese people have used it for over 2000 years as a purgative medicine, although some scientists consider it a medical enigma. If he was indeed suffering from syphilitic symptoms such as burning joint pain and oozing ulcerations, then this portrait could represent a sort of purgative catharsis. This purgative application is generally thought to be safe and effective even for geriatric and pediatric use. Mention of health at the end of the entry on rhubarb brings to mind purgative powers, plus questions about possible health risks if a lot of rhubarb is eaten. Prepared rhubarb is used when one desires to enhance the blood moving or heat clearing effects of the herb, but minimize the purgative action. The purgative activity of RH appears to be due to rhein and the sennoside components. Synonyms laxative, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant, purging 1.1 Having the effect of ridding someone of unwanted feelings or memories. 〈喻〉净化的；清洗的；清除的 the purgative action of language 语言的净化作用。 Example sentencesExamples Dreams carried great significance and were sought through fasting or other purgative ceremonies. We seem to prefer the smile that conceals an inner deception to the honest purgative truth about ourselves. What doesn't get manhandled out gets washed out with whatever purgative their employer prescribes. It is this purgative function of art to which Ernst Gombrich has appealed in his explication of the ‘grotesque.’ Olympics have a habit of inducing these purgative phases in host cities. Detoxification, in these narratives of spiritual struggle, counts as the long night of the soul: the body's purgative agony as it pours junk through all available orifices. It was, therefore, to take a leading trait of character, in this instance the uncompromising, unbending business ethic of a London merchant, and to trace its damaging development and its ultimate, purgative downfall. But when the six percussionists timidly clink their cymbals, it's hard to keep thinking they're high priests presiding over a purgative rite. The traditional vocabulary calls this the purgative path: We cleanse ourselves in order to keep God in our life. The need for purgative violence in order to recreate the self hearkens back to the ‘fiery zeale’ of the universal conflagration. Prior to Election Day, there was a widespread belief that the outcome of the 2000 Election was a fluke, an aberration, that would correct itself, as a sort of natural purgative process, in 2004. What's really troubling about someone like Eminem is the very purgative nature of art. The savage stomping dance; the primitive, purgative rite; a music of cosmic rigour - you don't have to go far from the Cité de la Musique to find glaring precedents. Some of them prime your emotions, setting you up for a let down or a purgative, thundering crash. Synonyms purging, purifying, cleansing, cleaning, releasing, relieving, freeing, delivering, exorcising, ridding nounˈpərɡədivˈpərɡədɪv 1A laxative. 泻剂 Example sentencesExamples He advocated enemas, emetics, purgatives and sneezing powders. Mercury, a purgative to clean the system, and quinine, to treat fever, can cause malaria and typhus sufferers to have symptoms that mimic typhoid and dysentery. It is considered a purgative, or a drink to help digestion. He rejected other common medical practices of his day such as purgatives and emetics with opium and mercury-based calomel. Hippocrates attributed ‘hysteria’ to a woman's uterus, and blamed ‘melancholia’ on black bile, which he attempted to treat with purgatives. Castor Oil Plant, while the plant is poisonous, the expressed thick, viscid oil is used as a powerful laxative and purgative. Its low-calorie and high calcium content, and supposed medicinal benefits as a purgative, have brought a new generation of eaters. Medicinal rhubarbs, as a purgative, are among the most important drug plants of all time. Mild oily purgatives like castor oil or bulk laxatives such as linseed or psyllium seeds are recommended. His mother then confessed to inducing the colitis with purgatives and twice giving him salt solutions nasogastrically. Among the more traditional remedies for plague fever were the various organic purgatives, including phlebotomy, diaphoretics, diuretics, emetics, and laxatives. In one year, Louis XIII received 215 doses of purgatives, 212 enemas and 47 bleedings! Napoleon had been treated for a long time with tartar emetics, and the day he died he had been given a huge dose of calomer as a purgative. Some of its other traditional uses have been as a mild purgative for chronic constipation and for the treatment of swollen glands. Triphala is widely regarded as a purgative and laxative but in fact it is considered a rasayana and rejuvenator. Purgatives should be taken on an empty stomach. Still, many people, obsessed with their bowels, continue to swell the profits of pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies by consuming purgatives regularly. Rush had given Lewis a list of rules for preserving health, which included prescription of purgatives. Emphasizing elimination through the overuse of purgatives in an already deficient individual can further deplete the body's store of minerals and essential B vitamins as well as imbalance beneficial intestinal micro-organisms. In India, Nigella seeds are combined with various purgatives to allay gripping and colic and also help kill and expel parasites. Synonyms laxative, enema, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant 1.1 A thing that rids someone of unwanted feelings or memories. 〈喻〉净化的；清洗的；清除的 confrontation would be a purgative 对峙会起到清心的作用。 Origin Late Middle English: from Old French purgatif, -ive, from late Latin purgativus, from purgat- ‘purified’, from the verb purgare (see purge).
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