: a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
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Examples of poultice in a Sentence
Noun
placed a poultice over the infected cut
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Katie Chang, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
If the court’s decision on Monday ripped off this wartime poultice, displaying anew the cultural war at the heart of Israeli politics, Mr. Netanyahu and his government responded by appealing again to wartime unity to try to downplay their loss.
—Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
And there's this one man who still will grind your poultices and grains.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2023
Applying a poultice first would be safest but probably not critical.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
The poultice dissolves the oil, then lifts it to the surface as the product dries.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
Rosen learned about poultices as a child, from his grandmother.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
On a cruise to Europe, a massage attendant extolled the virtues of body brushes, massage oils, and poultices.
—Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2023
With a plastic putty knife, spread the poultice about a quarter-inch thick over the stained area, including about an inch beyond the borders.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
Noun
The treatment offerings are just as comprehensive, ranging from modern Hydrafacials to the Thai Muscle Melt, an 80-minute full-body massage that draws inspiration from ancient Thai healing practices used on weary warriors returning from battle with warmed herbal poultices and pressure points.
—Katie Chang, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
If the court’s decision on Monday ripped off this wartime poultice, displaying anew the cultural war at the heart of Israeli politics, Mr. Netanyahu and his government responded by appealing again to wartime unity to try to downplay their loss.
—Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
And there's this one man who still will grind your poultices and grains.
—Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Dec. 2023
Applying a poultice first would be safest but probably not critical.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
The poultice dissolves the oil, then lifts it to the surface as the product dries.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
Rosen learned about poultices as a child, from his grandmother.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
On a cruise to Europe, a massage attendant extolled the virtues of body brushes, massage oils, and poultices.
—Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Aug. 2023
With a plastic putty knife, spread the poultice about a quarter-inch thick over the stained area, including about an inch beyond the borders.
—Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
Verb
Actually, Sister, in my experience poulticing isn’t much help in these chest cases.
—Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
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poultice
1 of 2 noun
poul·tice
ˈpōl-təs 
: a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions to supply moist warmth, relieve pain, or act as a counterirritant or antiseptic
called also cataplasm
poultice
2 of 2 transitive verb
poulticed; poulticing
: to apply a poultice to
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