purgative
adjectiveTending to cleanse or purge, especially causing evacuation of the bowels.
nounA purgative agent or medicine; a cathartic.
Having the power of cleansing; usually, having the power of evacuating the intestines; cathartic.
Having the property, as judicial torture in some cases, of invalidating the evidence against an accused person, when he, under torture, satisfactorily answered the questions of the judges.
nounA medicine that evacuates the intestines, producing more or less abundant and watery stools.
adjectiveHaving the power or quality of purging; cathartic.
adjectivesomething, such as a
a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
adjectivestrongly laxative