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Definition of emetic noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

emetic

noun
 
/ɪˈmetɪk/
 
/ɪˈmetɪk/
(medical)
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  1. a substance that makes you vomit (= bring up food from the stomach)
    • The child was given an emetic after he had swallowed some poisonous berries.
    Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Greek emetikos, from emein ‘to vomit’.
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