emetic

Example Sentences

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Bleeding, purges and emetics were still used to cure disease.

From Literature

Treatment involved a “toxic arsenal of emetics, laxatives, diuretics, and expectorants” as well as “lances, leeches, and blisters.”

From Washington Post

The word itself – meaningless, infantile, a bit 80s and decidedly naff – is emetic enough without the inefficiency, the pointlessness, the utterly wasted time and opportunity of a procedure that fixes precisely nothing.

From The Guardian

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

A doctor gave him a strong drug called an emetic, which made him vomit up the ball.

From Literature