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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bitter.

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Examples

  • You may not like Hillary, but is it because of her politics or because you hear the voices of bittered bigoted past saying ā€“ Women have no place outside the home?

    Obama: McCain should admit he was wrong on surge comments 2008

  • I also need to establish him and as young-and-keen, not particularly seasoned or bittered young man with ideals firmly in place.

    Ambassador - progress mikandra 2008

  • At some point in the not-too-distant past there was one style: India Pale Ale and it meant, basically, one thing: a strongly bittered bite in the finish.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • Interestingly, both of these hops are traditionally aroma hops; thus, we can guess that this will be a lightly bittered beer, with a complex aroma profile.

    Since It's So Cold Out, Let's Talk About Snowshoes 2008

  • Interestingly, both of these hops are traditionally aroma hops; thus, we can guess that this will be a lightly bittered beer, with a complex aroma profile.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • At some point in the not-too-distant past there was one style: India Pale Ale and it meant, basically, one thing: a strongly bittered bite in the finish.

    On India Pale Ales - Central Waters Glacial Trail IPA 2008

  • The thinking that results from a brain bittered by a life without meaning.

    "Iā€™m a religious fanatic just like you." Ann Althouse 2007

  • There was only this difference between us: he had resentments against your father, which he car-ried too far when he extended them to his innocent children [but it was an atrocious attempt, that em-bittered his otherwise benevolent spirit]: I have no resentment; and am armed with his power, and have all the will he ever could have, to serve you.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • The night was already complete for me as I snacked on olive rosemary popcorn enjoying my margarita, while Helmut denounced his drink as too gingery though I suspect it was just the first time he had dressed off the rack in a while, and not the drink, which may have bittered him a little.

    become a regular 2006

  • The night was already complete for me as I snacked on olive rosemary popcorn enjoying my margarita, while Helmut denounced his drink as too gingery though I suspect it was just the first time he had dressed off the rack in a while, and not the drink, which may have bittered him a little.

    Jean Georges: 784 masterfulillian stars 2006

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