embitter
verb (used with object)
to make bitter; cause to feel bitterness.
were embittering
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past progressiveof embitter.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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We must revert for a few minutes to the family circumstances of Theodoric, in order to understand the Page 266 influences which were embittering his spirit against his Catholic--that is to say, his Roman--subjects.
From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Thomas Hodgkin
