embitter
verb (used with object)
to make bitter; cause to feel bitterness.
have been embittering
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present perfect progressiveof embitter.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Among her fellow pensionnaires she met with discomforting illuminations, which were fine discipline also, though if she herself had been a less intellectual creature they might have been embittering.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
