单词	elixir
释义	elixire‧lix‧ir /ɪˈlɪksə $ -ər/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINelixir Origin: 1300-1400 Medieval Latin, Arabic al-iksir ‘the elixir’, probably from Greek xerion ‘powder for drying wounds’, from xeros ‘dry’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Nutritionists warn that artificial fat is no magic elixir for weight loss. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And now I found myself alone with little Arcas, one who carried in his veins the immortal elixir of Zeus. Great perils lay before them, and some of them paid with their lives for drinking that peerless elixir. Information is the elixir, the staff of life. It is not breath, not wind, not any kind of elixir or potion. People have been peddling phony weight-loss elixirs since before the turn of the century. The famous pharmacy reports a Yuletide boom for the elixir. The man who lived here would have definite elixir theories about his yoghurts, his knee-bends, his nudist vacations. To taste the elixir of life, become a drunkard in that mystic tavern! word sets WORD SETS► Folklore abominable snowman, nounapparition, nounbogey, nounbogeyman, nounboogeyman, nounchangeling, noundivine, verbdjinn, noundoppelganger, noundowse, verbdowser, noundowsing rod, noundragon, noundryad, noundwarf, nounEaster Bunny, nounelf, nounelixir, nounfairy, nounfairy godmother, nounfairyland, nounfairy tale, nounFather Christmas, nounfolk, adjectivefolk hero, noungenie, nounghost, noungiant, noungiantess, noungnome, noungoblin, noungremlin, nounhobgoblin, nounimp, nounleprechaun, nounleviathan, nounley, nounlore, nounmagic carpet, nounmermaid, nounmonster, nounnecromancy, nounnever-never land, nounnymph, nounogre, nounphiltre, nounpixie, nounsandman, nounSanta Claus, nounspectre, nounsprite, nounstardust, nounsuperstition, nounsuperstitious, adjectivesylph, nountale, nountotem, nountroll, noununicorn, nounurban myth, nounvampire, nounwerewolf, nounwishing well, nounyeti, noun Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► elixir of life  the search for the elixir of life 1[countable] literary a magical liquid that is supposed to cure people of illness, make them younger etc:  the search for the elixir of life2[countable] something that is supposed to solve problems as if by magic:  The current new wave of technology should prove an economic elixir.
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