Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make bitter in flavor.
- transitive verb To arouse bitter feelings in.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make bitter or more bitter.
- To affect with biterness or unhappiness; make distressful or grievous: as, the sins of youth often embitter old age.
- To render more violent or malignant; exasperate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make bitter or sad. See
imbitter .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To cause to be
bitter .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to be bitter or resentful
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet he was a boy among boys, too; he loved to swim, to skate, to fish, to forage, and passionately, above all, he loved to hunt; but in everything he held himself in check, that he might hold the younger boys in check; and my boy often repaid his conscientious vigilance with hard words and hard names, such as embitter even the most self-forgiving memories.
Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells William Dean Howells 1878
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These fraudulent dealings of the heart are those impostures which plunge men into infinite calamities and inconveniences, such as embitter the enjoyment even of common life itself.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823
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Every election season, the television airwaves are barraged by a seemingly endless succession of 30-second jeremiads that manipulate the facts and embitter the public.
Jonathan Miller: In Defense of the Indefensible: The Value of Truthful Negative Ads Jonathan 2011
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To be sure, immigration judges operate under extraordinarily difficult conditions that most likely overwhelm, exhaust, and embitter them, and maybe provoke some of the excesses noted above.
Bennett L. Gershman: How Immigration Courts Contaminate American Justice Bennett L. Gershman 2012
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Every election season, the television airwaves are barraged by a seemingly endless succession of 30-second jeremiads that manipulate the facts and embitter the public.
Jonathan Miller: In Defense of the Indefensible: The Value of Truthful Negative Ads Jonathan 2011
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Now isn't the time to inflame an already desperate condition with police practices that are likely to further embitter those who are facing a possible lifetime without hope.
David R. Jones, Esq.: "Stop and Frisk": A Road to Disaster Esq. David R. Jones 2012
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It's part of an attempt to embitter the lives of Palestinians so that they leave.
Israeli authors join campaign to keep Arab bookseller in the country 2011
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So, in that spirit and in an effort to temporarily edify and embitter you, my many readers like most primitive people -- and I am a primitive people -- I know only the numbers "1", "2" and "many", I'd like to share the resolutions I plan to make this coming New Year:
Floyd Elliot: High Resolution Floyd Elliot 2011
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In addition to helping pointlessly destroy and embitter post-war Germany, setting the stage for the Nazi rise and WW2, Wilson also deeply snubbed the Japanese attempt to become an equal diplomatic player, setting the stage for hardliners to win out and WW2.
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So, in that spirit and in an effort to temporarily edify and embitter you, my many readers like most primitive people -- and I am a primitive people -- I know only the numbers "1", "2" and "many", I'd like to share the resolutions I plan to make this coming New Year:
Floyd Elliot: High Resolution Floyd Elliot 2011
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