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aperient

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8 lettersPart of speech adjective, nounSorted aeeinprtStarts with AEnds with T0 clues
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Definitions

  1. mildly laxative

Word origin

Attested since the early 17th century, from Latin aperiens, present participle of aperire (“to open”).

Used in a sentence

  • Is it really more knowledge we want, or more understanding? Are we in fact clavigerous and fail to realize the aperient properties of that which is in our hand?
  • In its fresh vegetable state, chicory, or succory—the Cichorium Intybus of botanists, is said to be a good tonic, and to have the effect of an aperient.

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