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absinthiating

v.
C2 Proficiency ab·sinthi·at·ing

v. to make someone feel very sick or to cause them to vomit. It is a very old-fashioned word that people rarely use today.

v. to cause vomiting or to make someone feel violently ill. Archaic in register; primarily found in historical medical or literary texts.


SIMPLE

The strong smell of the medicine was absinthiating.

CONTEXTUAL

The patient was absinthiating after consuming the bitter herbal tincture during the nineteenth-century treatment.

COMPLEX

In the era of humoral medicine, certain remedies were designed to be absinthiating, as the belief was that expelling the contents of the stomach would purge the body of toxins.

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