Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Causing vomiting.
- n. An agent that causes vomiting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. causing nausea and vomiting
- n. an agent that induces vomiting
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Inducing vomiting.
- n. A medicine that induces vomiting.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting
Etymologies
Examples
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But of course, an emetic is out of the question in the present case.
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But remember the emetic which is given at _first_ is _pure Ipecacuanha
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It's like some kind of emetic factory, or something.
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The emetic was a disgusting practice of Roman _bon vivants_ who were afraid of indigestion.] [Footnote 3: The verse which Cicero quotes from Lucilius is fairly equivalent to this.] [Footnote 4: Probably by way of salute; or possibly as a precaution.]
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It’s like some kind of emetic factory, or something.
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They contain truly novel and "fresh" images -- "the hair-trigger emetic atmosphere of his throat."
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Third, each story and poem has, if available, a short epilogue from Zelazny himself explaining his own feelings about it, and also a glossary of literary references (most of which are accurate, though I wouldn't be surprised if the Miller whose writing has emetic effects is Henry rather than Arthur).
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King was taken inside and an emetic administered, when he vomited up a quantity of the poison.
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The thought came to him that the emetic had failed, and that nothing remained but the drugstore.
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I'm just as bad bit as you, an 'I'm goin' to take a emetic.
Prolagus commented on the word emetic
See camomile.
July 8, 2008