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Definition of cathartic in English: catharticadjective kəˈθɑːtɪkkəˈθɑrdɪk 1Providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions; causing catharsis. 有宣泄作用的；起宣泄作用的 crying is a cathartic release 哭泣是一种宣泄。 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps this is why the film is best seen in a crowded theatre, where the infectiousness of cathartic emotion can have full play.
- Would we then defer to his expressed wishes and enact a scene of cathartic cruelty?
- For many, the experience is clearly cathartic and helps release pent-up emotions.
- Gullible by nature, they are easily swayed by catchy slogans and start seeking cathartic relief in communal frenzy.
- As an expression of community solidarity, and as a cathartic public moment of defiance in the face of the threat of personal loss, it is a powerful symbol.
- Sometimes it's cathartic to open up about the sad stuff.
- It was a great, great, great show, a very cathartic release.
- Today, audiences prefer big statements, cathartic effects and emotional exhibitionism.
- Forgiveness is cathartic and releases tension, revenge perpetuates and increases tension.
- It's been a cathartic experience for all of us.
- This would have a cathartic effect; it would release us from the torments of hypocrisy, from the discomforts of a lie.
- But beyond the monetary considerations, her renaming ordeal has also proved emotionally cathartic.
- We were witnessing the cathartic expression of raw experience that could be the foundation of a profoundly moving work and perhaps one day it will.
- Furthermore, a substantial body of social research reports that engaging in cathartic expressions of anger does not eradicate aggressive urges but rather escalates them.
- All people, including Chinese people, crave the cathartic release that laughter provides.
- I also think there is real value, cathartic release, in applying to humour to the situation and being able to openly laugh at what we once feared
- As with Greek drama, it may be emotionally cathartic but it is never soothing.
- However, don't expect a cathartic payoff, because there is little emotional messiness in this largely intellectual exercise.
- It's a defiantly anti-commercial album; one built more for cathartic expression than fretting over the amount of units sold.
- The play is supposed to build to a final cathartic spilling of secrets and emotions.
Synonyms purgative, purging, purifying, cleansing, cleaning, releasing, relieving, freeing, delivering, exorcising, ridding Psychoanalysis abreactive rare depurative, lustral 2Medicine
Purgative. 〔医〕泻剂 Example sentencesExamples - The cathartic dose of sorbitol is 20 to 50 grams.
- The third type of intervention is administration of cathartic agents to increase gastrointestinal motility and hasten the expulsion of the toxin.
- Since sodium phosphate is an osmotic cathartic agent, there is the risk of intravascular volume reduction due to the production of a large effluent.
- Participants 50 years and older with an indication for colonoscopy underwent cathartic preparation of the colon before CTC followed by regular colonoscopy.
- This fungus is supposedly edible but faded forms can be confused with R. formosa, which has a strong cathartic effect when eaten.
noun kəˈθɑːtɪkkəˈθɑrdɪk Medicine A purgative drug. 〔医〕泻剂 Example sentencesExamples - Mercury is used in the manufacture of skin medicine, dental amalgam, plastics, cathartics, paints, fungicides, cosmetics, and scientific instruments.
- Gastric lavage, emetics, activated charcoal, cathartics, etc., should be used when indicated.
- Gastrointestinal decontamination with activated charcoal and a cathartic may be useful in acute exposures if the drug was taken orally within the previous 60 minutes.
- There is no evidence that cathartics reduce absorption or toxicity, however.
- Other laxatives and cathartics are available.
Synonyms laxative, enema, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant
Derivativesadverb The novel ends when all the women cathartically destroy the wall that has cut them off from the rest of the city - and from their chances for better lives. Example sentencesExamples - The secret to a successful relocation is knowing what to honestly expect so you can laugh cathartically when the inevitable bizarre scenarios emerge.
- I at least hope I have convinced you that my mom is a headcase and look forward to cathartically yet necessarily reviewing the insanity of my father next Saturday.
- Not so much softening us up for us, but giving us a sense of what it might mean as a speculative future to observe and in some ways cathartically live through that process.
- There are beautiful quiet passages (including a surprisingly restrained Jaco solo) and tracks that just build and build until they just explode cathartically.
OriginEarly 17th century (in medical use): via late Latin from Greek kathartikos, from katharsis ‘cleansing’ (see catharsis). Definition of cathartic in US English: catharticadjectivekəˈTHärdikkəˈθɑrdɪk 1Providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions; causing catharsis. 有宣泄作用的；起宣泄作用的 crying is a cathartic release 哭泣是一种宣泄。 Example sentencesExamples - Perhaps this is why the film is best seen in a crowded theatre, where the infectiousness of cathartic emotion can have full play.
- As with Greek drama, it may be emotionally cathartic but it is never soothing.
- All people, including Chinese people, crave the cathartic release that laughter provides.
- I also think there is real value, cathartic release, in applying to humour to the situation and being able to openly laugh at what we once feared
- This would have a cathartic effect; it would release us from the torments of hypocrisy, from the discomforts of a lie.
- It's been a cathartic experience for all of us.
- However, don't expect a cathartic payoff, because there is little emotional messiness in this largely intellectual exercise.
- The play is supposed to build to a final cathartic spilling of secrets and emotions.
- As an expression of community solidarity, and as a cathartic public moment of defiance in the face of the threat of personal loss, it is a powerful symbol.
- Today, audiences prefer big statements, cathartic effects and emotional exhibitionism.
- Forgiveness is cathartic and releases tension, revenge perpetuates and increases tension.
- Gullible by nature, they are easily swayed by catchy slogans and start seeking cathartic relief in communal frenzy.
- For many, the experience is clearly cathartic and helps release pent-up emotions.
- It's a defiantly anti-commercial album; one built more for cathartic expression than fretting over the amount of units sold.
- Furthermore, a substantial body of social research reports that engaging in cathartic expressions of anger does not eradicate aggressive urges but rather escalates them.
- Sometimes it's cathartic to open up about the sad stuff.
- It was a great, great, great show, a very cathartic release.
- We were witnessing the cathartic expression of raw experience that could be the foundation of a profoundly moving work and perhaps one day it will.
- But beyond the monetary considerations, her renaming ordeal has also proved emotionally cathartic.
- Would we then defer to his expressed wishes and enact a scene of cathartic cruelty?
Synonyms purgative, purging, purifying, cleansing, cleaning, releasing, relieving, freeing, delivering, exorcising, ridding 2Medicine
(chiefly of a drug) purgative. 〔医〕（多指药）导泻的，通便的 Example sentencesExamples - Since sodium phosphate is an osmotic cathartic agent, there is the risk of intravascular volume reduction due to the production of a large effluent.
- The third type of intervention is administration of cathartic agents to increase gastrointestinal motility and hasten the expulsion of the toxin.
- The cathartic dose of sorbitol is 20 to 50 grams.
- This fungus is supposedly edible but faded forms can be confused with R. formosa, which has a strong cathartic effect when eaten.
- Participants 50 years and older with an indication for colonoscopy underwent cathartic preparation of the colon before CTC followed by regular colonoscopy.
nounkəˈTHärdikkəˈθɑrdɪk Medicine A purgative drug. 〔医〕泻剂 Example sentencesExamples - There is no evidence that cathartics reduce absorption or toxicity, however.
- Gastric lavage, emetics, activated charcoal, cathartics, etc., should be used when indicated.
- Gastrointestinal decontamination with activated charcoal and a cathartic may be useful in acute exposures if the drug was taken orally within the previous 60 minutes.
- Mercury is used in the manufacture of skin medicine, dental amalgam, plastics, cathartics, paints, fungicides, cosmetics, and scientific instruments.
- Other laxatives and cathartics are available.
Synonyms laxative, enema, aperient, lenitive, cathartic, evacuant
OriginEarly 17th century (in medical use): via late Latin from Greek kathartikos, from katharsis ‘cleansing’ (see catharsis). |