Expulsive [adjective]
Definition of Expulsive:
tending to eliminate
Synonyms of Expulsive:
Opposite/Antonyms of Expulsive:
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Sentence/Example of Expulsive:
The "expulsive power of a new affection" is, after all, the mightiest agency in reform.
Elimination can only be secured by a proper expulsive effort.
Von Guericke, however, recognized it as such, and refers to it as what he calls "expulsive virtue."
The expulsive force of a new emotion had for the time driven out all temptation.
Occasionally, long passages in music demand that the expulsive power of the breathing apparatus be used to its limit.
A sudden rise in temperature may excite expulsive uterine contraction.
In the expulsive stage of labor there is danger of the right ventricle giving way under the added strain.
In the second stage the pains are stronger, recur every two or three minutes, and are expulsive.
The lesions produced in the extreme expulsive efforts of the paroxysm form favorable niduses for the micro-organism.
This has been well called the 'expulsive power of the higher emotion.'