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# emollient

«emollient» in Mova's school dictionary: **a cream or lotion that makes dry skin soft and smooth** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an emollient, emollients); adjective (emollient)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An emollient is a cream or lotion that makes dry skin soft and smooth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#m1)

2) (formal) Emollient words or behaviour are calming and gentle, meant to stop people getting angry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In health lessons and on chemist labels it means moisturiser for dry skin or eczema. In formal writing and news it describes soothing speeches. Phrases: «emollient cream», «an emollient tone».

### examples

- The doctor gave me an emollient for my eczema. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#x1)
- Rub the emollient cream into dry patches of skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#x2)
- Emollients help skin keep its water in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#x3)
- Use an emollient after a bath. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#x4)
- The head teacher spoke in an emollient tone to calm the angry parents. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#x5)
- (formal) The minister gave an emollient reply to the protesters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#x6)
- Grandma uses an emollient on her hands in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#x7)
- Emollient creams can make the bath slippery, so be careful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/#x8)

### note

Say it «ee-MOL-ee-ent». Countable as a noun: an emollient, emollients. Safety: emollient creams can soak into clothes and bedding and make them burn more easily, so keep away from flames.

### In the corpora

- [Thick moisturisers called emollients every day, and steroid creams for flare-ups used as the doctor says, keep eczema calm.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/2/)
- [Doctors treat eczema with emollients every day and steroid creams for flare-ups, the times when it gets worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/15-eczema-and-other-skin-troubles/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «emollient» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/emollient/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.