embitter

Example Sentences

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Mr. Cross “never condoned the kidnappers,” his son-in-law said, but neither did he allow “what they did to embitter him or eat into his enjoyment of life thereafter.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021

The unhappy decline that constituted the second act was, in Pastor’s view, an uncannily precise preview of the economic, social and political discontents that now embitter our national politics.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2018

Hardship did not embitter Lucy Larcom, and she never lost her love of books and gift for poetry.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The process can embitter victims if they feel their experiences are being weighed against each other.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2012

Exacerbate, egz-as′ėr-bāt, or eks-, v.t. to embitter: to provoke: to render more violent or severe, as a disease.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various