Embitter

Word EMBITTER
Character 8
Hyphenation em bit ter
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Embitter"

What do we mean by embitter?

To make bitter in flavor. transitive verb

To arouse bitter feelings in. transitive verb

To make bitter or more bitter.

To affect with biterness or unhappiness; make distressful or grievous: as, the sins of youth often embitter old age.

To render more violent or malignant; exasperate.

To make bitter or sad. See imbitter. transitive verb

To cause to be bitter. verb

Cause to be bitter or resentful verb

To cause to be bitter.

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The word "embitter" in example sentences

Yet he was a boy among boys, too; he loved to swim, to skate, to fish, to forage, and passionately, above all, he loved to hunt; but in everything he held himself in check, that he might hold the younger boys in check; and my boy often repaid his conscientious vigilance with hard words and hard names, such as embitter even the most self-forgiving memories. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

These fraudulent dealings of the heart are those impostures which plunge men into infinite calamities and inconveniences, such as embitter the enjoyment even of common life itself. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

Every election season, the television airwaves are barraged by a seemingly endless succession of 30-second jeremiads that manipulate the facts and embitter the public. ❋ Jonathan (2011)

To be sure, immigration judges operate under extraordinarily difficult conditions that most likely overwhelm, exhaust, and embitter them, and maybe provoke some of the excesses noted above. ❋ Bennett L. Gershman (2012)

Now isn't the time to inflame an already desperate condition with police practices that are likely to further embitter those who are facing a possible lifetime without hope. ❋ Esq. David R. Jones (2012)

It's part of an attempt to embitter the lives of Palestinians so that they leave. ❋ Unknown (2011)

So, in that spirit and in an effort to temporarily edify and embitter you, my many readers like most primitive people -- and I am a primitive people -- I know only the numbers "1", "2" and "many", I'd like to share the resolutions I plan to make this coming New Year: ❋ Floyd Elliot (2011)

In addition to helping pointlessly destroy and embitter post-war Germany, setting the stage for the Nazi rise and WW2, Wilson also deeply snubbed the Japanese attempt to become an equal diplomatic player, setting the stage for hardliners to win out and WW2. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And Blair liked wars because they create new enemies and entrench or embitter old ones, thus creating future threats, which lead to further expensive, morally and socially disruptive, make-the-world anew wars. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet the years he spent on Robben Island and then Pollsmoor Prison, a maximum security facility near Cape Town, did not embitter Mandela. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is difficult to imagine the president's advisers sitting in the Oval Office and urging this approach: Mr. President, the best course here would be to savage likely supporters of the bill and to embitter your political base. ❋ Jennifer Rubin (2010)

Meanwhile, such a move would surely embitter a large chunk of the general electorate, including those especially valuable swing voters. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He has enough to overwhelm his heart with sorrow and embitter every enjoyment of life. ❋ Maggiemac (2009)

To be truthful, however, is next to impossible; so that they generally serve to aggravate and to embitter that which was before offensively virulent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We were chatting together every day, of course, and the uninitiated could not be deterred from leading the conversation round to the ugly difficulties that would embitter our lives and hinder our progress when rounding the Horn. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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