CATHARTICS Antonyms

• tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue

• a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals

• sour or bitter in taste

• the capacity to attract and hold something

• strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration

• the act of applying a bandage

• one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall

• the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

• executed with proper legal authority

• restrictive of action

• preventing movement

• restrictive of action

• serving to restrict

• (of tariff) protective of national interests by restricting imports

• the act of making something tighter

• of or relating to or producing normal tone or tonus in muscles or tissue

• employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of otherwise similar words

• (used of syllables) bearing the principle stress, usually accompanied by a change in pitch

• lime- or lemon-flavored carbonated water containing quinine

• a sweet drink containing carbonated water and flavoring

• (music) the first note of a diatonic scale

• a medicine that strengthens and invigorates

• relating to or being the keynote of a major or minor scale

• imparting vitality and energy

• impede with a clog or as if with a clog

• cause to be constipated