Embitter
[ɪm'bɪtə;em-] or [ɪm'bɪtɚ]
Definition
(verb.) cause to be bitter or resentful; 'These injustices embittered her even more'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [Written also Imbitter.] [1]. Make bitter.[2]. Make unhappy or grievous.[3]. Exasperate, madden, enrage.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Aggravate, molest
ANT:Alleviate, soothe, sweeten
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Definition
Imbitter im- v.t. to make bitter: to increase (ill-feeling).—p.adj. Embitt′ered soured.—n. Embitt′erer.—p.adj. Embitt′ering.—n. Embitt′erment.
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Examples
- I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It is nothing that they added to my anxieties and embittered my disappointments--the steady march of events has inexorably passed them by. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- All her dear plans were embittered, and she thought with disgust of Sir James's conceiving that she recognized him as her lover. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- France had a minister here once who embittered the nation against him in the most innocent way. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It was further embittered at the Reformation by this religious incompatibility. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- For, if evil chance him, the last moment of your life would be embittered with regret for denying that which I ask of you. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Something there might be of both thesebut these are embittered by that darkest foe of humanity--constitutional melancholy. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And he had begun now to frame possibilities for the future which were somehow more embittering to him than anything his mind had dwelt on before. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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