purgative
Example Sentences
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Taking out the trash is like administering a purgative to my house.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2019
The last act of a Shakespearean tragedy always brings such purgative reckonings.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2018
By the middle of the bridge — “Don’t stop dreamin’, don’t stop believin’” — you may be itching for some big, purgative blast to wake you up, and wash away the cliché.
From New York Times ● Jul. 27, 2018
And this, too, felt like a purgative end to 2016.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
Rufus had poured the purgative into his chamber pot and ordered me to tell his father he’d taken it.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
