embitter
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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
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
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
This circumstance, coupled with the late bad treatment of Mr. Brace, will embitter our diplomatic relations with Austria.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing embitter
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: en-, em-
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Novel Study: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Chapters 1–6
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The Devil in the White City
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