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1. Emotionally purging
   - psychotherapeutic
    
2. Emotionally purging (of e.g. art)
   - releasing
    
3. Strongly laxative
   - evacuant, purgative

1. A purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels
   - purgative, physic, aperient

Derived forms: cathartics

See also: catharsis, emotional, healthful, laxative

Type of: medicament, medication, medicinal drug, medicine

Encyclopedia: Cathartic