WORD: ELIXIR
MEANING:
1. A sweetened aromatic solution of alcohol and water, serving as a vehicle for medicine.
2. a. See philosophers' stone. b. A substance believed to maintain life indefinitely. Also called elixir of life. c. A substance or medicine believed to have the power to cure all ills.
3. An underlying principle.
4. A substance or liquid which is believed to cure illness and give eternal life
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The salesman was selling an elixir that he said would protect us all from the plague.
PRONOUNCE:
e·lix·ir - इलिक्सर
LINK: ELIXIR
MEANING:
1. A sweetened aromatic solution of alcohol and water, serving as a vehicle for medicine.
2. a. See philosophers' stone. b. A substance believed to maintain life indefinitely. Also called elixir of life. c. A substance or medicine believed to have the power to cure all ills.
3. An underlying principle.
4. A substance or liquid which is believed to cure illness and give eternal life
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. The salesman was selling an elixir that he said would protect us all from the plague.
PRONOUNCE:
e·lix·ir - इलिक्सर
LINK: ELIXIR
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