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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Fortunately he did not live long enough after his brother hopelessly to embitter his daughter's youth.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
If he did not at once forget the woman, the memory of his existence of luxury never returned to embitter him.
THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSON
And I will embitter thy life, and poison it, first: and then I will take it away.
THE SUBSTANCE OF A DREAM F. W. BAIN
The final draft that would embitter his years was added the sixth night after the accident—the night that Henry died.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
I would not, for the sake of my party and beliefs, embitter what remains of my old friend's life.
RICHARD CARVEL, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILL
Even personal defects are dragged in to prejudice the reader and embitter the venom of irrelevant abuse.
BYRONRICHARD EDGCUMBE
I loved her devotedly, and that perhaps was one great cause of the jealousy which began to spring up and embitter my life.
FAMILY PRIDEMARY J. HOLMES
I only mention it to show how tile most trivial circumstance contributes to embitter the cup to the man of adversity.
CALEB WILLIAMSWILLIAM GODWIN
This cannot but embitter their views against English rulers, and strengthen their leaning to national sentiments.
HANDBOOK OF HOME RULE (1887)W. E. GLADSTONE ET AL.
It could only embitter his last few hours; and, besides, we had six months to think of it.
CHARLES O'MALLEY, THE IRISH DRAGOON, VOLUME 2 (OF 2)CHARLES LEVER
WORDS RELATED TO EMBITTER
- acerbate
- affront
- aggravate
- agitate
- annoy
- antagonize
- arouse
- bait
- blow up
- boil
- boil over
- bristle
- burn
- burn up
- chafe
- craze
- cross
- displease
- egg on
- embitter
- enrage
- exacerbate
- exasperate
- excite
- fret
- gall
- get mad
- get on one's nerves
- goad
- incense
- inflame
- infuriate
- irritate
- lose one's temper
- madden
- make sore
- miff
- nettle
- offend
- outrage
- pique
- provoke
- raise hell
- rankle
- rant
- rave
- rile
- ruffle
- seethe
- steam up
- stew
- stir up
- tempt
- umbrage
- vex
- acerbate
- affront
- aggravate
- agitate
- annoy
- antagonize
- arouse
- bait
- blow up
- boil
- boil over
- bristle
- burn
- burn up
- chafe
- craze
- cross
- displease
- egg on
- embitter
- enrage
- exacerbate
- exasperate
- excite
- fret
- gall
- get mad
- get on one's nerves
- goad
- incense
- inflame
- infuriate
- irritate
- lose one's temper
- madden
- make sore
- miff
- nettle
- offend
- outrage
- pique
- provoke
- raise hell
- rankle
- rant
- rave
- rile
- ruffle
- seethe
- steam up
- stew
- stir up
- tempt
- umbrage
- vex
- acerbate
- affront
- aggravate
- agitate
- annoy
- antagonize
- arouse
- bait
- blow up
- boil
- boil over
- bristle
- burn
- burn up
- chafe
- craze
- cross
- displease
- egg on
- embitter
- enrage
- exacerbate
- exasperate
- excite
- fret
- gall
- get mad
- get on one's nerves
- goad
- incense
- inflame
- infuriate
- irritate
- lose one's temper
- madden
- make sore
- miff
- nettle
- offend
- outrage
- pique
- provoke
- raise hell
- rankle
- rant
- rave
- rile
- ruffle
- seethe
- steam up
- stew
- stir up
- tempt
- umbrage
- vex
- abort
- baffle
- balk
- bring to naught
- bungle
- cast down
- chagrin
- circumvent
- come to nothing
- dash
- dash hopes
- deceive
- delude
- disconcert
- disenchant
- disgruntle
- dishearten
- disillusion
- dissatisfy
- dumbfound
- embitter
- fail
- fall down on
- fall flat
- fall short of
- foil
- founder
- hamper
- hinder
- leave in the lurch
- let down
- miscarry
- mislead
- not show
- put out
- ruin prospects
- stand up
- tease
- thwart
- torment
- vex
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.