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| ca·thar·tic [ kə thrtik ] |
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1. purifying: producing a feeling of being purified emotionally, spiritually, or psychologically as a result of an intense emotional experience or therapeutic technique
  a film that had a truly cathartic effect on me
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2. having purgative effect on bowels: describes a medicine that causes emptying of the bowels
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noun (plural ca·thar·tics) |
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purgative medicine: a medicine that causes emptying of the bowels
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| ca·thar·ti·cal·ly adverb |
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