Usually means: Substances that induce bowel movements.
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  1. purgatives: Merriam-Webster
  2. purgatives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. purgatives: Vocabulary.com
  4. purgatives: Wordnik
  5. purgatives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. purgatives: Wiktionary
  7. purgatives: Dictionary.com
  8. Purgatives: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. purgatives: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. purgatives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purgatives: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. purgatives: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (purgative)

adjective:  (capable of) purging
noun:  something, such as a substance or medicine, that purges; laxative
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