Crossword-Solution: BALM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Balm | n. | An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa. |
| Balm | n. | The resinous and aromatic exudation of certain trees or shrubs. |
| Balm | n. | Any fragrant ointment. |
| Balm | n. | Anything that heals or that mitigates pain. |
| Balm | v. i. | To anoint with balm, or with anything medicinal. Hence: To soothe; to mitigate. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BALM | anagram | BLAM, LAMB |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
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greedy person
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Sentences with BALM (5)
Still came the battery of flowers, almost invariably hitting the mark, and covering the mother’s breast with hurts for which she could find no balm in this world, nor knew how to seek it in another.
Beside the fruit trees there was a great umbrella-shaped catalpa, and a balm-of-Gilead, two lindens, and even a ginka,—a rigid, pointed tree with leaves shaped like butterflies, which shivered, but never bent to the wind.
Her heart seemed all at once to be in complete peace, and, though it still ached with undefined longing, a vague and delicious hope soothed it as with a balm.
She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with “hell following after.” But she never suspected that she was not an angel of healing and the balm of Gilead in disguise, to the suffering neighbors.
The rain was still coming down, but they hardly noticed it: the pure air was like balm in their faces.
Quotes with BALM (3)
My grace is sufficient for thee. The words soothed her soul like a healing balm.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
Inner quiet can be cultivated. Meditation is a healing balm to a frazzled brain existing in a hectic world.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 261 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).