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adj. Medicine Tending to draw together or constrict tissues; styptic.

adj. Sharp and penetrating; pungent or severe: astringent remarks.

n. A substance or preparation, such as alum, that draws together or constricts body tissues and is effective in stopping the flow of blood or other secretions.

n. A substance which draws tissue together, thus restricting the flow of blood.

adj. Sharp, caustic, severe.

adj. Having the effect of drawing tissue together; styptic.

adj. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative

adj. Stern; austere.

n. A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.

Binding; contracting; constrictive; styptic.

n. A substance which contracts the tissues and canals of the body, condensing the soft solids, and thereby checking or diminishing excessive discharges, as of blood.

n. Formerly also adstringent.

adj. sour or bitter in taste

n. a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals

adj. tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue

"You can also wipe your palms with cotton balls dipped in astringent, to remove unwanted body oils."

sour    hemostatic    styptic   

stern    austere    constrictive    styptic    puckery    haemostatic    rough    binding   

contingent    stringent   

resinous    antipyretic    acrid    antiseptic    medicinal    nauseous    intoxicating    stomachic    analgesic    bitterish