Crossword-Solution: CATHARSIS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Catharsis | n. | A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of the mouth, bowels, etc. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “CATHARSIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| release of strong emotion | 1 answer |
| purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | 1 answer |
| abreaction | 1 answer |
| It might be achieved by crying or hitting a punching bag | 1 answer |
| Emotional release | 1 answer |
| Emotional cleansing | 1 answer |
| Effect of tragedy, according to Aristotle | 1 answer |
| lustration | 2 answers |
| depuration | 7 answers |
| purgation | 18 answers |
| ABLUTION | 19 answers |
| expurgation | 22 answers |
| streaming | 22 answers |
| CLEANING ___ | 25 answers |
| Cleansing | 35 answers |
| Purge | 45 answers |
| purification | 52 answers |
| purging | 53 answers |
| Outlet | 55 answers |
| gushing | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CATHARSIS (5)
THE EFFECT OF DRUGS ON BLOOD PRESSURE Free catharsis is a well established and valuable method of relieving the heart in many cases of broken compensation, and in cases with high blood pressure even while compensation is still good, salines administered once or twice a week assist in elimination, and in the reduction of blood pressure.
When there is hypotension, or when the diastolic pressure is high and the venous pressure is high, and when there is edema or effusion, watery catharsis should be caused only after due consideration, and always with a careful watching of the effect on the heart and blood pressure.
LAXATIVES If the bowels are known to be in excellent condition and not loaded with fecal matters, brisk catharsis is not needed simply because endocarditis has developed.
The necessary diminished diet, catharsis, hypnotic, salicylic acid and alkalies all tend to quiet the circulation and diminish any strenuosity of the heart that may be present.
But little food should be given; nothing very hot or very cold, and no large amount of liquids; gentle catharsis may be induced on the following day, if deemed advisable; no stimulating drugs should be administered, and nothing which would raise the blood pressure.
Quotes with CATHARSIS (3)
As a rule, we don't like to feel to sad or lonely or depressed. So why do we like music (or books or movies) that evoke in us those same negative emotions? Why do we choose to experience in art the very feelings we avoid in real life? Aristotle deals with a similar question in his analysis of tragedy. Tragedy, after all, is pretty gruesome. […] There's Sophocles's Oedipus, who blinds himself after learning that he has killed his father and slept with his mother. Why would any…
I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which mounts now to the catharsis of knowledge and conviction, is for me--and I think for all of us--not only our own hope, but America's everlasting, living dream.
Seven smirked as he walked back over to me. "I gave you catharsis last night. Twice.
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Appears in: New Yorker, NY Sun, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2002–2022).