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POULTICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("poultice" is a kind of...):
dressing; medical dressing (a cloth covering for a wound or sore)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poultice"):
mustard plaster; sinapism (a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient)
Derivation:
poultice (dress by covering with a therapeutic substance)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they poultice ... he / she / it poultices
Past simple: poulticed
Past participle: poulticed
-ing form: poulticing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dress by covering with a therapeutic substance
Synonyms:
plaster; poultice
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "poultice" is one way to...):
dress (apply a bandage or medication to)
Domain category:
medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sentence example:
Did he poultice his foot?
Derivation:
poultice (a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.)
