to embitter

Examples

• All

• I believe he became embittered over that lack of promotion.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Henry McNeal Turner, not a native Georgian, grew embittered and left the state.

  Academic text (2011)

• You've allowed that one mistake of yours to embitter your whole life.

  The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)

• Karl was brought up in this atmosphere, and both he and his father were embittered by religion.

  Blog text (18)

• Now I know from experience that those people are just cynics embittered by their own failure.

  The King of Comedy (1982)

• DeLara remains embittered about the five years he spent waiting for his disability claim.

  Blog text (11)

• But after being passed over for the chief's job, an embittered Quinn left the police force in the early 1940s.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Years of bad news from the front have hardened these divisions along partisan lines and embittered many on both sides.

  Academic text (2008)

• Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

• Ninety percent of reviews resulted in continued confinement, and those detainees who did gain their freedom often emerged from detention embittered, having been confined for years without ever going before a panel.

  Academic text (2009)

Synonyms

G

to grate

vsto embitter

• Informal

9 6.7

Annoy someone more and more over time

causes bitterness or resentment more directly rather than slowly

D

to disgruntle

vsto embitter

1 8.0

To make someone feel unhappy or annoyed

produces bitterness or resentment rather than mere dissatisfaction

A

to acerbate

vsto embitter

9.9

To make someone feel more bitter and angry about something

is the same in meaning but an alternative form

E

to envenom

vsto embitter

9.9

To make a person or group feel bitter and angry

causes bitterness or resentment in a milder general way

Antonyms

S

to soothe

63 3.4

To make someone feel calmer or reduce their pain

P

to pacify

11 5.2

To calm someone who is angry or upset

How Resentful

to embitter

5 6.8

to alienate

123 6.7

to offend

524 2.8

to upset

362 1.0

to annoy

246 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology