Meaning of Wormwood | Babel Free
ˈwə(ɹ)m.wʊdDefinitions
- A star or angel that appears in the Book of Revelation, turning waters bitter and poisonous.
- An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
- A surname.
- Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation.
Equivalents
Examples
“But as I said, / When it did taste⟳ the wormwood on the nipple / Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, / To see⟳ it tetchy and fall⟳ out with the dug!”
“Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed⟳ them, even this people, with wormwood, and give⟳ them water of gall to drink⟳.”
“Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut⟳ Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]”
“Cliff took two glasses and filled one with wine And one with wormwood.”
“Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock, elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.”
“Tradition credits John the Baptist with wearing a girdle fashioned of wormwood, while he was in the wilderness.”
“The irony of this reply⟳ was wormwood to Zeluco; he fell into a gloomy fit of musing, and made no farther inquiry […].”
“Yet I think⟳ the Archdeacon, a "new man," to whom the aristocratic Canon's popularity was wormwood, did dislike him.”
“And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; And the name⟳ of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.”
“Having got the address from the school records, Miss⟳ Honey set⟳ out to walk⟳ from her own⟳ home to the Wormwoods’ house shortly after nine.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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