imbitter
Americanverb (used with object)
Other Word Forms
- imbitterer noun
- imbitterment noun
Example Sentences
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I suppose, nay, I am certain, that the memory of our happiest moments ought ever to be of the very faintest and weakest, since, could we recall them in all their fulness and freshness, the recollection would only serve to deepen the gloom of age, and imbitter all its daily trials.
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He made the best of things, overlooking the petty matters which some persons allow to wear and imbitter their dispositions.
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All was now gayety and cheerfulness: and as nothing occurred either to delay the wedding again, or to imbitter the after lives of Edward and Marian de Vaux, we shall pass the whole over with the fewest possible words--they were united and were happy.
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To sour; to imbitter; to irritate.
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Was it not enough alone, if she had been far less ill, to imbitter the very fountains of life, and kill her with mere fright and horror?
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