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adj. - Tending to diminish desire.

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Usage examples (12)
  • This may explain their anaphrodisiac effects on men.
  • For more than a decade, reviewers have been wearied by Raine's schoolboyish anal-fixation, which continues unimpeded, supplying a rush of anaphrodisiac prose.
  • Hence bromide of potassium -- or bromide of sodium, which is possibly somewhat safer still though not quite so certain in its action -- is used as a hypnotic, as the standard...
  • It may be doubted, however, whether there is any satisfactory and reliable anaphrodisiac.
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