laxative

IPA: ɫˈæksʌtɪv

Any substance, such as a food or in the form of a medicine which has a laxative effect.

Having the effect of moving the bowels, or aiding digestion and preventing constipation.

Examples of "laxative" in Sentences

My question is, why cant this lazy ass kid eat the laxative on his own?
“The laxative was the lesser of the two evils, especially if your folks had found out.”
DO NOT EAT OR DRINK any kind of laxative or purge highly seasoned food alcoholic drinks
Putting the word concern between quote marks is a poor laxative for understanding, ralph.
A sherbet of the pods, being slightly laxative, is much drunk during the great heats; and the dried fruit, made into small round cakes, is sold in the bazars.
The liberal use of these cooked vegetables has a tendency to prevent constipation, and some of them are called laxative foods, such as stewed onions and spinach.
Relax had gone from being about giving up control of things like rules and bowel muscles perhaps with some help from a laxative to being about striving to do something quite particular: nothing.
Most rhubarb available then was imported dried from China as a laxative, although some was also grown for medicinal purposes in England; fresh rhubarb was not used in British cooking until the late 18th century.
It was not cultivated as a plant until the 17th century long after Elizabeth I, and then only speculatively, and mainly as a possible home-grown substitute for the expensive rhubarb root imported from the east and used as a purgative and laxative.