embitter
verb (used with object)
to make bitter; cause to feel bitterness.
embitters
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present tense formof embitter (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The understanding that zoning rules are made to be broken, meanwhile, embitters residents who double down on strict zoning.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2021
While aimed at violent extremists, the crackdown embitters many local streamtowns, and large networks grow paranoid over fears of police infiltration.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2020
In her Nobel lecture, Aung San Suu Kyi remarked: “Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 5, 2017
This highly publicized “war of currents” embitters both Edison and Tesla, who asks his rival late in the drama, “Do you really hate it because it’s dangerous, or because you didn’t invent it?”
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2011
Excuse us," said he, "misfortune embitters even the best men.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
