Evacuant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Causing evacuation, especially of the bowels; purgative.
  • n. A purgative.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. something used to clean out an organ system, especially the bowels.
  • adj. a laxative
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In medicine, emptying; provoking evacuation or the act of voiding; purgative.
  • n. A medicine which procures evacuations, or promotes the normal secretions and excretions.
  • n. In organ-building, a valve to let out the air from the bellows.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. strongly laxative
  • Equivalent
    laxative   
    Form
    purgatory   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    emptying    evacuative    purgative    cathartic