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If something is cathartic, it helps you get a strong feeling out so you feel cleaner afterwards. A long honest talk can be cathartic; so can a film that makes you weep, or writing a letter you never send. It is the adjective that sits next to . Formal, at home in essays and in careful talk about feelings. There is also an older doctor-use: a cathartic medicine makes you empty your bowels — the same “cleaning out” idea, but for the body. The feeling-word is the one meet first. Though actually the two uses are one family: both mean “that purges.”
能宣洩情感的；讓人痛快哭過、說完就輕鬆的
組成A learned borrowing from New Latin catharticus, from Ancient Greek kathartikós — “that cleanses.”
同家族的字
- catharsisthe noun for the release itself
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
catharticadj/kəˈθɑɹtɪk/
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Purgative; inducing mental or physical catharsis.
- Shaving, my favorite activity, is very cathartic.
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That which releases emotional tension, especially after an overwhelming experience.
- "So, there are real opportunities to create real change with enforcement." Prosser describes how some of that change is also cathartic to those who have been directly affected by incidents on the railway, such as the families who have lost loved ones.
- For some, Saturday’s protests were cathartic, a show of force and solidarity by progressives who had struggled to pick themselves up from last November’s election defeat.
catharticnoun/kəˈθɑɹtɪk/
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medicinesciencesA laxative.
- The disease was regarded as pneumonia so far advanced that suppuration seemed to have supervened; bleeding, blisters, expectorants, and cathartics diminished the symptoms; the pulse continued frequent, hard, full, but always regular.
- As Jan McTavish notes, when the physician diagnosed the headache's origins in the digestive system, particularly constipation, the antidote might entail cathartics (substances that accelerate defecation) or emetics (inducers of vomiting) and other regulators of the digestive process.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。