Mary took an emetic.
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Emetic
Synonyms for "emetic" (74 found)
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55 translations across 25 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- предизвикващ повръщане adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
Catalan
2 entries- emètic adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- emètic noun (agent)
Czech
4 entries- dávicí adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- emetický adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- dávicí prostředek noun (agent)
- dávidlo noun (agent)
Dutch
2 entries- braakwekkend adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- braakmiddel noun (agent)
Finnish
4 entries- emeettinen adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- oksettava adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- emeetti noun (agent)
- oksetusaine noun (agent)
French
4 entries- vomitif adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- émétique adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- vomitif noun (agent)
- émétique noun (agent)
Galician
1 entries- vomitivo adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
German
3 entries- emetisch adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- Brechmittel noun (agent)
- Emetikum noun (agent)
Greek
2 entries- εμετικός adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- εμετικό noun (agent)
Hawaiian
1 entries- hoʻoluaʻi adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
Hungarian
1 entries- hánytató noun (agent)
Irish
1 entries- urlacach adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
Italian
3 entries- emetico adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- emetizzante adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- emetico noun (agent)
Latin
1 entries- emeticus adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
Māori
2 entries- whakaruaki adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- rongoā whakaruaki noun (agent)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- brekningsfremkallende adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- kvalmefremkallende adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- brekningsmiddel noun (agent)
Polish
4 entries- emetyczny adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- wymiotny adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- emetyk noun (agent)
- środek wymiotny noun (agent)
Portuguese
2 entries- emético adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- emético noun (agent)
Romanian
1 entries- emetic adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
Russian
2 entries- рво́тный adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- рво́тное noun (agent)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- emetik noun (agent)
- еметик noun (agent)
Spanish
2 entries- emético adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- emético noun (agent)
Swedish
3 entries- kräkframkallande adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- kräkningsframkallande adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- kräkmedel noun (agent)
Ukrainian
2 entries- блюво́тний adj (causing nausea and vomiting)
- блюво́тне noun (agent)
Volapük
1 entries- vomitamedin noun (agent)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
As Jan McTavish notes, when the physician diagnosed the headache's origins in the digestive system, particularly constipation, the antidote might entail cathartics (substances that accelerate defecation) or emetics (inducers of vomiting) and other regulators of the digestive process.
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