to embitter
2
6.8
- verb
- /ɪmˈbɪtərd/
- She felt embittered after being overlooked for a promotion she deserved.
Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
9
6.7
Annoy someone more and more over time
1
9.9
To make a person or group feel bitter and angry
1
9.9
To make someone feel more bitter and angry about something
1
8.0
To make someone feel unhappy or annoyed
Antonyms
How Resentful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Embitter comes from the prefix em- meaning 'to make' and the word bitter, which means 'sharp' or 'unpleasant' like a bad taste. So to embitter someone is to 'make' their feelings like that bad taste, that is, to make them feel bitter or resentful.