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aphrodisiac
[ af-ruh-dee-ze-ak, -diz-ee-ak ]
adjective
- Also aph·ro·di·si·a·cal [] arousing sexual desire.
noun
- an aphrodisiac food, drug, potion, or other agent that arouses sexual desire.
aphrodisiac
/ ˌæfrəˈdɪzɪæk /
noun
- a drug, food, etc, that excites sexual desire
adjective
- exciting or heightening sexual desire
aphrodisiac
- A substance or quality that excites sexual desire.
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Other Words From
- anti·aphro·disi·ac adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aphrodisiac1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aphrodisiac1
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Example Sentences
But one artist in Miami has gone even further, creating pieces made from napalm and a rare aphrodisiac soda, Nexcite.
Expensive real estate is an aphrodisiac for girls like Claire, Walter notes.
So this must be the celebrity aphrodisiac I had been warned about.
Power is an aphrodisiac, Henry Kissinger famously said, but it is clearly also a great skin cream.
At this point, my biggest aphrodisiac is an apathetic attitude toward politics.
Those three dead men on the thirteenth floor of that office building had acted like an aphrodisiac on Wilson Lamb.
Her person exhaled an aphrodisiac charm, which challenged and laid fast hold of the other sex.
Its flesh was said to promote longevity, to cure hydrophobia, and to be aphrodisiac.
It is said also to have an aphrodisiac operation, due to its powers as a cerebral excitor.
The flesh of these newts, reduced to ashes, is considered an efficacious aphrodisiac.
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