cathartic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis.

   “Shaving, my favorite activity, is very cathartic.”

2. sıfat That which releases emotional tension, especially after an overwhelming experience.

   “"So, there are real opportunities to create real change with enforcement." Prosser describes how some of that change is also cathartic to those who have been directly affected by incidents on the railway, such as the families who have lost loved ones.”

3. isim A laxative.

   “The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.”