wormwood
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Is wormwood a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation.Examples: "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."countablefigurativelyuncountable
name (English)
1. (Christianity) A star or angel that appears in the Book of Revelation, turning waters bitter and poisonous.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
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