embitter

Example Sentences

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AP: What struck me most watching the film is that despite going through what would defeat or embitter most, you seem to have emerged with such joy and appreciation for life.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2021

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

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

Or will the attack embitter powerful factions in the government and alienate them further from the notion of an alliance with the United States?

From Slate • May 2, 2011

“I just never happened to get caught in a serious situation that would embitter me to the point where I would continue in that pattern.”

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2010

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