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aperient

adjective as in eliminative

adjective as in eliminatory

adjective as in evacuative

adjective as in excretory

adjective as in lustral

adjective as in lustrative

adjective as in purgatorial

adjective as in purificatory

noun as in purgative

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Example Sentences

Carbolic Acid … liquid … oil … sweet oil … castor oil … aperient … Epsom Salts … white … white of egg.

I'll send him a little quieting draught to be taken directly—pill at night, aperient in the morning.

Still I must think that vegetable food is, in my own case, less aperient than animal.

Vegetable diet is less aperient than a mixed diet, if we except Indian corn.

With me much less aperient; indeed, costiveness became a very serious and distressing accompaniment.

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

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