emollient
润肤,润肤剂,柔软剂,润湿剂
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Definitions
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- : having the power of softening or relaxing, as a medicinal substance; soothing, especially to the skin: emollient lotions for the face.
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- : an emollient medicine, lotion, salve, etc.
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Examples
Try adding a richly emollient body cream to your daily routine for long-lasting hydration that will leave skin hydrated and fabulous, not dried out, which can enhance fine lines and wrinkles.
Oatmeal is an emollient, which means that it holds moisture against the skin.
Rubenstein listened and as an emollient agreed to an in-house investigation.
No soft hand of woman smoothed his pillow or relieved the agony of pain and suffering by the timely opiate or emollient.
Ben rushed, and had an emollient; spouted again and was corked; again, and received a neat red-waxen stopper.
The bowels have been kept open from the 19th, by the occasional use of emollient injections.
It was attempted to relieve this induration by emollient fomentations.
He must have seen that its effect would only be to irritate a spirit needing an emollient.