Usually means: In a manner causing purification.
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  1. purgatively: Collins English Dictionary
  2. purgatively: Wordnik
  3. purgatively: Wiktionary
  4. Purgatively: Dictionary.com
  5. Purgatively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. purgatively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Purgatively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. purgatively: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Purgatively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purgatively: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a purgative manner; so as to purge.

Similar:
purgingly, purifyingly, puritanically, Puritanly, suppuratively, puristically, purulently, curatively, detersively, unpuritanically, more...

Opposite:
constipating, astringent, binding

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Similar:
purgingly, purifyingly, puritanically, Puritanly, suppuratively, puristically, purulently, curatively, detersively, unpuritanically, more...

Opposite:
constipating, astringent, binding



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