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purging(medicine)
purging(2)(dictionary)
purging(1)(dictionary)
purging cassia(medicine)
bone marrow purging(medicine)
hemlock(medicine)
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Hemlock Society, the (oh) and purging(1) (iou)


Hemlock Society, the (oh)



an organization in the US which aims to change the law that prevents helping seriously ill people to die if they wish to. The organization gives advice to such people and their Families. There is a similar organization in the UK called Exit .

purging(1) (iou)



purging adjective. M16.
[from PURGE verb + -ING2.]
That purges; esp. purgative, strongly laxative.
purging BUCKTHORN purging flax: see FLAX noun. purging nut (a) (the seed of) the physic-nut, Jatropha curcas, the source of pulza-oil; (b) (the seed of) the tree Croton tiglium, the source of croton oil.