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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "emetic" in a sentence

    emetic example sentences

    emetic


    1. This is a face of bitter herbs, this an emetic, they need no label,


    2. His colleague was by no means of this opinion, and, as he said of himself, "never beating about the bush," he prescribed, an emetic in order to empty the stomach completely


    3. His colleague was silent, having just before privately received a severe lecture about his emetic, so that this good Canivet, so arrogant and so verbose at the time of the clubfoot, was to-day very modest


    4. "That emetic, Villefort—see if it is coming


    5. " Villefort sprang into the passage, exclaiming, "The emetic! the emetic!—is it come yet?" No one answered


    6. "Will they never bring that emetic?" asked the doctor


    7. Caris was preparing an emetic, Oonagh was grinding dried herbs, and a novice, Greta, was copying out Caris’ s book, when a novice monk came in with a small wooden chest


    8. If made too strong the infusion may become emetic (cause vomiting)


    9. But sometimes he is like the old juggling fellow, formerly a patient of mine in Ceylon, that making believe swallow jack-knives, once upon a time let one drop into him in good earnest, and there it stayed for a twelvemonth or more; when I gave him an emetic, and he heaved it up in small tacks, d'ye see


    10. —A decoction of the whole plant, used as an emetic in cases of ague and fever

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    Synonyms for "emetic"

    emetic nauseant vomit vomitive

    "emetic" definitions

    a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting