Laxative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A food or drug that stimulates evacuation of the bowels.
  • adj. Stimulating evacuation of the bowels.
  • adj. Causing looseness or relaxation, especially of the bowels.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having the effect of moving the bowels, or aiding digestion and preventing constipation.
  • n. Any substance, such as a food or in the form of a medicine which has a laxative effect.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Having a tendency to loosen or relax.
  • adj. Having the effect of loosening or opening the intestines, and relieving from constipation; -- opposed to astringent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Loose; soft; easy.
  • In medicine, having the power or quality of relieving from constipation by relaxing or opening the intestines. Compare cathartic, 1.
  • n. A medicine that relieves from costiveness by relaxing the intestines; a gentle purgative.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a mild cathartic
  • adj. stimulating evacuation of feces
    • Equivalent
    purgative    aperient    evacuant    cathartic   
    Antonym
    astringent   
    Same Context
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