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spurge

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6 lettersPronunciation /spɜːdʒ/Part of speech nounSorted egprsuStarts with SEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. any of numerous plants of the genus Euphorbia; usually having milky often poisonous juice

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English spurge, from Old French espurge, from espurgier (“to purge”), from Latin expurgo (“to purge”); the bitter milky sap of these plants was formerly used as a purgative.

Used in a sentence

  • But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
  • A compound of spurge, cardamom, cinnamon of Mecca, pellitory, ginger, nettle seed is an Arab specific for sexual weakness.
  • The body's somthing noysome: 'tis a stale one; / Good troth it spurgeth very monstrously.

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