imbitter
Americanverb (used with object)
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"Farewell, gallant Scot," said he, "if aught could imbitter this moment of recovered freedom, it is that I leave a man I so revere, still confident in a finally hopeless cause!"
From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane
Love of virtue will animate panegyrick, and hatred of wickedness imbitter censure.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Johnson, Samuel
The author regards children as sacred, and would not, for the world, cast anything into the fountain of a young heart that might imbitter and pollute its waters.
From Biographical Stories (From: "True Stories of History and Biography") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
I will not imbitter it with a word of doubt or debate.
From Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter by Dewey, Mary Elizabeth
What would this be but to imbitter his reflections needlessly.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
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