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purgative

purgative adjective: purging.

Adjective

purgative

(capable of) purging

Noun

purgative (plural purgatives)

something, such as a substance or medicine, that purges; laxative

purgative meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

purgative in Tamil

பேதி மருந்து, கழிச்சல் ஊக்கி, பேதி, பேதி ஊக்கி

purgative in Urdu

جلاب, مسہل

purgative in Bengali

বিরেচক, কোষ্ঠ পরিষ্কারক ওষুধ

purgative in Telugu

purgative: బేదిమందు bēdimandu

More languagesFewer languages

purgative in Malayalam: ശുദ്ധീകരിക്കുന്ന, ശുദ്ധിയാക്കുന്ന, ശുചികര, ശുദ്ധികര
purgative in Kannada: ವಿರೇಚಕ, ಭೇದಿಮಾಡಿಸುವ ಔಷಧ, ಜುಲಾಬುಕಾರಿ, ಎಕ್ಕುಗೆ

Forms of purgative

plural	purgatives

Origin of purgative

From Middle French purgatif.

Words formed from purgative

Questions about purgative

What does purgative mean?: Purgative means purging.
What is purgative in Tamil?: Purgative in Tamil is பேதி மருந்து, கழிச்சல் ஊக்கி, பேதி. See Purgative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is purgative?: Purgative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near purgative in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: purgative (page history and authors); purgative (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purgative (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); purgative (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); బేదిమందు (Telugu) (page history and authors); purgative (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); purgative (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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