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cathartics

n. (plural of cathartic English)

Usage examples of "cathartics".

It will be seen that what the surgeon wanted consisted chiefly of opiates, stimulants, cathartics, plasters, and materials for bandages.

Hector, whose inside was continually being churned with cathartics, very often had this symptom, and the worm powder was poured from its pink tissue wrapper upon his tongue, followed by a gobbet of jam which only made the dose more gritty and nauseous.

We found four different herbs that are the most violent cathartics you ever dreamed of.