embitter
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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
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
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
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
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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