hurt vs wormwood

hurt

noun
  • An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. 

  • A roundel azure (blue circular spot). 

  • A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions. 

  • A husk. 

adj
  • Wounded, physically injured. 

  • Pained. 

verb
  • To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury. 

  • To be painful. 

  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain. 

  • To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede. 

wormwood

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

  • 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. 

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