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wormwood

C1 noun
us /ˈwɜːm.wʊd/gen /ˈweːm.wʊd/

wormwood /ˈwəːm.wɵd/ nghĩa là ngải cứu

Các nghĩa

  1. ngải cứu

    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.

    countable · uncountable

    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.

    Tradition credits John the Baptist with wearing a girdle fashioned of wormwood, while he was in the wilderness.

  2. điều cay đắng, nỗi đắng cay

    Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation.

    countable · figuratively · uncountable

    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.

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