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DEPURATIVE

Definitions: DEPURATIVE

DEPURATIVE

Adjective

1. Purifying the blood or the humors; depuratory.

Noun

1. A depurative remedy or agent; or a disease which is believed to be depurative.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Specialty Definitions: DEPURATIVE

DomainDefinitions

Botanical

A substance tending to purify or cleanse. Achillea, Asclepia, Bambusa, Byttneria, Cassia, Centella, Chamissoa, Chiococca, Cissampelos, Cleome, Commelina, Cornutia, Crescentia, Davilla, Desmodium, Drymaria, Gouania, Guazuma, Jatropha, Lepidium, Paspalum, Paullinia, Pedilanthus, Pentagonia, Petiveria, Piper, Pothomorphe, Pseudelephantopus, Renealmia, Solanum, Stachytarpheta, Tamarindus, Trichilia, Zizyphus. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: DEPURATIVE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Remedy

Allopathic, heteropathic, homeopathic, hydropathic; anthelmintic; antifebrile, antiluetic; aperient, chalybeate, deobstruent, depurative, laxative, roborant.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: DEPURATIVE

English words defined with "DEPURATIVE": Depurant, Depuratory. (references)
Specialty definitions using "DEPURATIVE": BYTTNERIA ACULEATACORNUTIA GRANDIFOLIA. (references)

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Modern Translations: DEPURATIVE

Language Translations for "DEPURATIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

glennee (abluent, abstergent, cleansing, detergent). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

epurativeday

   

Vietnamese 

  

chất tẩy uế (disinfectant), để tẩy uế, để lọc trong, để lọc sạch. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: DEPURATIVE

Misspellings

"DEPURATIVE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Deportiva. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "DEPURATIVE"

Words rhyming with "DEPURATIVE" (pronounced 'Dep"u*ra*tive'): Abdicative, Abditive, Abirritative, Abjunctive, Abnegative, Abrogative, Absorptive, Abstractive, Accelerative, Accompletive, Accretive, Accumulative, Acervative, Acquisitive, Active, Adaptative, Additive, Adductive, Adjudicative, Administrative, Admirative, Admonitive, Adscriptive, Adumbrative, Affective, Affinitative, Affinitive, Afflictive, Afformative, Agglomerative, Agglutinative, Aggravative, Aggregative, Agitative, Alleviative, Alliterative, Altercative, Amalgamative, Amative, Ambulative, Ameliorative, Ampliative, Amplificative, Animative, Annihilative, Annotative, Annunciative, Anticipative, Aperitive, Appetitive. (additional references)

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Anagrams: DEPURATIVE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-p-r-t-u-v"

-1 letter: repudiate.

-2 letters: depurate, derivate, durative, eruptive, eupatrid, preaudit.

-3 letters: adepter, averted, deprave, deprive, deviate, diptera, erudite, erupted, partied, peatier, pervade, pirated, predate, predive, preedit, prevued, private, repaved, reputed, retaped, riveted, tapered, updater, uprated.

-4 letters: advert, aeried, airted, dative, dautie, dearie, depart, depute, derate, derive, diaper, dieter, divert, evader, evited, ideate, paired, pardee, pardie, pareve.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-p-r-t-u-v"
 

+1 letter: vituperated.

 

+3 letters: reduplicative.

 

+4 letters: predevaluation.

 

+5 letters: predevaluations, reduplicatively.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DEPURATIVE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 45 50 55 52 41 54 49 56 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-..    .    .--.    ..-    .-.    .-    -    ..    ...-    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01000101 01010000 01010101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#80 &#85 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#73 &#86 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0050 0055 0052 0041 0054 0049 0056 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

38395055523554435639

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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