Meaning

Obsolete spelling of embitter..

Example Sentences

Sometimes it [pride] ſtirreth vp men, and imboldeneth them to offer vvrongs: ſometimes imbittereth men; and maketh them vvayvvard againſt the right: […]

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

The Proſpect of Death is ſo gloomy and diſmal, that if it vvere conſtantly before our Eyes, it vvould imbitter all the Svveets of Life.

The superstition of the people was not imbittered by any mixture of theological rancor; nor was it confined by the chains of any speculative system.

[T]hat monſtrous fiction, vvhich, by inſpiring falſe ideas and vain expectations into men deſtined to travel in the obſcure vvalk of laborious life, ſerves only to aggravate and imbitter that real inequality, vvhich it never can remove; […]

It is with extreme reluctance that I dwell upon the appalling scene which ensued; a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory, and whose stern recollection will imbitter every future moment of my existence.

Naturally the Tennesseeans, conscious that they had not wronged the Indians, and had scrupulously observed the treaty, grew imbittered over, the wanton Indian outrages.

Word Forms

• imbitters
• imbittering
• imbittered
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• imbitter
• imbitterest
• imbitteredst
• imbittereth
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When Should You Use Imbitter?

Use imbitter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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