purgative

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

a substance, especially a medicine, that causes your bowels to empty purgative adjective: This oil has a purgative effect.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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