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emetic

[uh-met-ik] / əˈmɛt ɪk /




NOUN
purgative
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The next night, Rhodes began vomiting again - “you’re pretty coherent, you go in and out of it” - and the emetic foetus reappeared.

From The Guardian • Jan. 14, 2020

Nothing here feels cute, quaint or kitsch, though whimsy can fall that way, into a slough of soggy sentimentality sometimes laced with an emetic of twee.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2018

In those days, the only available cure was tartar emetic, a compound of antimony that was administered as 12–16 injections given once a week.

From Nature • Nov. 7, 2017

Please tell me the most emetic fact about Zika that you know.

From Slate • Jan. 28, 2016

Fortunately, it proved emetic; and her stomach having rejected all that she had swallowed, she was restored to health, though her recovery was for some time doubtful.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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