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embittered

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em·bit·ter  (m-btr)
tr.v. em·bit·tered, em·bit·ter·ing, em·bit·ters
1. To make bitter in flavor.
2. To arouse bitter feelings in: was embittered by years of unrewarded labor.
em·bitter·ment n.
embittered
Adjective
feeling anger and despair as a result of misfortune: embittered by poverty
embitterment n
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embittered
adjective resentful, angry, acid, bitter, sour, soured, alienated, disillusioned, disaffected, venomous, rancorous, at daggers drawn (informal) nursing a grudge, with a chip on your shoulder (informal)
Translations
embittered [ɪmˈbɪtəd] adj → resentido, amargado
embittered [ɪmˈbɪtəd] embitter adj → verbittert


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They were, moreover, in the present case, embittered with certain circumstances, which being mixed with sweeter ingredients, tended altogether to compose a draught that might be termed bitter-sweet; than which, as nothing can be more disagreeable to the palate, so nothing, in the metaphorical sense, can be so injurious to the mind.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
In the matter of wills, personal qualities were subordinate to the great fundamental fact of blood; and to be determined in the distribution of your property by caprice, and not make your legacies bear a direct ratio to degrees of kinship, was a prospective disgrace that would have embittered her life.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
Why, the whole point, the real sting of it lay in the fact that continually, even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not even an embittered man, that I was simply scaring sparrows at random and amusing myself by it.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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