verb
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to make (a person) resentful or bitter
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to aggravate (an already hostile feeling, difficult situation, etc)
Other Word Forms
- embittered adjective
- embitterer noun
- embitterment noun
- unembittered adjective
Etymology
Origin of embitter
Example Sentences
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As a narrator, Won maintains a weary earnestness, acknowledging the bitterness of his situation without allowing it to embitter him.
From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023
AP: What struck me most watching the film is that despite going through what would defeat or embitter most, you seem to have emerged with such joy and appreciation for life.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2021
The unhappy decline that constituted the second act was, in Pastor’s view, an uncannily precise preview of the economic, social and political discontents that now embitter our national politics.
From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2018
Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
The happiness of this world is fragile and unstable--one must try to make life sweet and not embitter it.
From Count Br?hl by Kraszewski, Jo?zef Ignacy
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