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• n  a chemical substance that causes sneezing and coughing and crying
  police used a sternutatory to subdue the mob
• a  tending to cause sneezing
• s  causing sneezing
  pepper is a sternutatory substance

• In small concentrations, these gases have a sternutatory (sneeze causing) effect and in larger concentrations cause acute pain similar to but more violent than that caused by .

• sternutator
• sternutative