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drastic
1691, originally medical, "forceful, vigorous, especially in effect on bowels," from Gk.
drastikos
"effective," from
drasteon
"(thing) to be done," from
dran
"to do, act, perform." Sense of "extreme, severe" is first recorded 1808.
