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embitterment

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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.
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Noun1.embitterment - the state of being embittered; "the embitterment that resulted from the loss of his job never left him"
unhappiness - state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief
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embitterment [ɪmˈbɪtəmənt] N → amargura f


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These were heavy impressions to struggle against, and brought that melancholy embitterment which is the consequence of all excessive claim: even his religious faith wavered with his wavering trust in his own authorship, and the consolations of the Christian hope in immortality seemed to lean on the immortality of the still unwritten Key to all Mythologies.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
The old unhappy loss or want of something had, I am conscious, some place in my heart; but not to the embitterment of my life.
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
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