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Melting Icecap Used As An Emetic

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noun

• a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning)

47%8 Turn into an icecap
verb

• cover with ice or snow or a glacier

• become frozen and covered with glaciers

33%5 Purgative, emetic
noun

• an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes

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