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aperient

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Having a gentle laxative effect.
  2. Serving to open or reveal.

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]ouching the much vexed question⟳ of stimulants he relished a glass of choice old wine in season as both nourishing and bloodmaking and possessing aperient virtues (notably a good burgundy which he was a staunch believer in) […]”
“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?”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

aperiodic aperiodical aperiosteal aperispermic aperitive aperspectival

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