Embitter

Quick meaning: Embitter is a verb meaning To cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly; to envenom.

Meaning

To cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly; to envenom.

More Meanings

1. To cause (a positive quality such as happiness, or a thing such as an activity or one's life) to become less good or pleasurable; also, to make (a negative quality, or thing such as a disagreement) worse or more unpleasant.
2. (archaic) To cause (something) to be or taste bitter; to bitter.

Example Sentences

A juſt, but melancholy reflection, embittered, hovvever, the nobleſt of human enjoyments.

He imbitters not a diſtaſtfull meſſage to a forrein Prince by his indiſcretion in delivering it.

Two circumstances only had embittered their union, which was otherwise as happy as mutual affection could render it.

Their pleaſures, poor as they vvere, could not be preſerved pure, but vvere embittered by petty competitions and vvorthleſs emulation.

Word Forms

• embitters
• embittering
• embittered
• embitterest
• embitteredst
• embittereth

Synonyms for embitter

Depending on context, synonyms include acerbate, envenom.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include acerbate, envenom, bitter, debitter, acidify, debitterize.

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