embitter

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em- +‎ bitter

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embitter (third-person singular simple present embitters, present participle embittering, simple past and past participle embittered)

  1. To cause to be bitter.
    • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 155:
      She was at once humiliated and embittered; but the warm heart, and the strong mind, must have an object; and her energies, equally with her affections, had concentrated themselves on her son.

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