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ointment

noun as in cream for treatment

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Daniel takes testosterone through injections, but the hormone can also be absorbed via skin ointment or a patch.

The fly in the ointment is the potential return of showers on Sunday.

They were a small ointment for the open, latent and bleeding wound that Louisiana was giving me.

Aikey has been administering three different eye drops four times a day, along with eye ointment and thyroid pills twice daily.

From Time

A screechy bug in the ointment — but it’s not a biggieCurrently, the entry form for Week 1435, the contest to make funny art with at least one real cicada or nymph casing — is not transmitting photos properly.

John McCormack has been the dogged fly in the ointment here.

This means not being the fly in the ointment of peace talks.

Hundreds of billions of dollars in new taxes—the inevitable fly in the ointment of any big new liberal idea.

The flaw in Gaga's ointment too was is in part that she was upstaged by Kanye.

And thou hast adorned thyself for the king with ointment, and hast multiplied thy perfumes.

Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and a table was decked before thee: whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my ointment.

So even here there were flies in every ointment, and no dream of perfection could remain unchallenged.

As to the numb feeling in one's feet, one never has time to rub oneself over with Bengue's ointment.

Evidently this imposingly named product is practically a lanolin ointment containing oil of wintergreen and menthol.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ointment, such as: balm, lotion, salve, cerate, demulcent, and dressing.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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