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    A balm is a soft, substance you rub on your skin to make it feel better, to soothe pain, dryness, or a small injury, like lip balm for dry lips. Beyond the skin, 'a balm' is also used for anything that comforts or soothes a painful feeling: her kind words were a balm to his broken heart means her words made his sadness feel better, the same way a balm soothes skin.

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組成a shortened form of an older word, balsam, a soothing plant resin used since ancient times to heal skin and wounds.

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  • balsamthe older, fuller form of the same word, a soothing plant resin

原始詞典資料9 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

balmnoun/bɑːm/

  • 1

    Any of various aromatic resins exuded from certain plants, especially trees of the genus Commiphora of Africa, Arabia and India and Myroxylon of South America.

  • 2

    An aromatic preparation for embalming the dead.

  • 3

    A plant or tree yielding such substance.

  • 4

    Any soothing oil or lotion, especially an aromatic one.

  • 5

    Something soothing.

    • Classical music is a sweet balm for our sorrows.
    • BEAT on, proud billows; Boreas blow; / Swell, curled waves, high as Jove's roof; / Your incivility doth ſhow, / That innocence is tempeſt proof; / Though ſurly Nereus frown, my thoughts are calm; / Then ſtrike, Affliction, for thy wounds are balm. [Attributed to Roger L'Estrange (1616–1704).]
  • 6

    The lemon balm, Melissa officinalis.

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    Any of a number of other aromatic herbs with a similar citrus-like scent, such as bee balm and horsebalm.

balmverb/bɑːm/

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    archaicTo anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal.

    • Shrouded in cloth of state, balmed and entreasured / With full bags of spices!
  • 2

    To soothe; to mitigate.

    • This rest might yet have balmed thy broken sinews

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。