styptic

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Adj — Bringing about contraction of tissues; harsh, raw, austere.

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin stypticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek στυπτικός (stuptikós), from στύφω (stúphō, “to contract”).