Word Meanings - APOCRUSTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Astringent and repellent. -- n.

Related words: (words related to APOCRUSTIC)

• REPELLENT
  Driving back; able or tending to repel.
• ASTRINGENTLY
  In an astringent manner.
• ASTRINGENT
  1. Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit. 2. Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
• SUBASTRINGENT
  Somewhat astringent.
• INTERREPELLENT
  Mutually repellent. De Quincey.