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embitter

[ em-bit-er ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to make bitter; cause to feel bitterness:

    Failure has embittered him.

    Synonyms: envenom, rankle, sour

  2. to make bitter or more bitter in taste.


embitter

/ ɪmˈbɪtə /

verb

  1. to make (a person) resentful or bitter
  2. to aggravate (an already hostile feeling, difficult situation, etc)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • emˈbitterer, noun
  • emˈbitterment, noun
  • emˈbittered, adjective
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Other Words From

  • em·bitter·er noun
  • em·bitter·ment noun
  • unem·bittered adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of embitter1

First recorded in 1595–1605; em- 1 + bitter
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Example Sentences

“His experiences of discrimination in the Navy and in the housing market permanently embittered him,” Rothstein writes.

That funding program embittered Workhorse leadership, said the three people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because both the Postal Service and its vendors are bound by nondisclosure agreements.

Fortunately he did not live long enough after his brother hopelessly to embitter his daughter's youth.

If he did not at once forget the woman, the memory of his existence of luxury never returned to embitter him.

And I will embitter thy life, and poison it, first: and then I will take it away.

The final draft that would embitter his years was added the sixth night after the accident—the night that Henry died.

I would not, for the sake of my party and beliefs, embitter what remains of my old friend's life.

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