lust
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /lʌst/
lust
- A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
- Seeing Kim fills me with a passionate lust.
- (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
- The boarders hide their lust to go home.
- For little lust had she to talk of aught.
- My lust to devotion is little.
- (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
- An ideal son is his father's lasting lust.
- (obsolete) virility; vigour; active power
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- Trees will grow greater, and bear better fruit, if you put salt, or lees of wine, or blood, to the root: the cause may be the increasing the lust or spirit of the root.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- (strong desire) See also Thesaurus:craving or Thesaurus:lust
- (general want or longing) See also Thesaurus:desire
- (delightful cause of joy) See also Thesaurus:pleasure
- (active power) lustihood, potency, vigour, virility
- French: luxure
- German: Wollust, Lust
- Italian: libido, libidine, lussuria
- Portuguese: luxúria
- Russian: по́хоть
- Spanish: lujuria
- French: convoitise
- German: Lust, Begehren, Verlangen
- Italian: lussuria
- Portuguese: vontade
- Russian: жела́ние
- Spanish: deseo, ganas, lujuria
lust (lusts, present participle lusting; past and past participle lusted)
- (intransitive, usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
- He was lusting after the woman in the tight leather miniskirt.
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