"embitter" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ɪmˈbɪtə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɛm-/ [Received-Pronunciation], /əmˈbɪtəɹ/ [General-American], /ɛm-/ [General-American], [-ɾəɹ] [General-American] Audio: En-us-embitter.ogg Forms: embitters [present, singular, third-person], embittering [participle, present], embittered [participle, past], embittered [past], no-table-tags [table-tags], embitter [infinitive]
Rhymes: -ɪtə(ɹ) Etymology: From em- (variant of the suffix en- with the sense ‘to become’) + bitter. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰeyd-}}, {{glossary|suffix}} suffix, {{affix|en|em-|bitter|pos1=variant of the suffix <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">en-</i> with the sense ‘to become’}} em- (variant of the suffix en- with the sense ‘to become’) + bitter Head templates: {{en-verb}} embitter (third-person singular simple present embitters, present participle embittering, simple past and past participle embittered), {{term-label|en|transitive}} (transitive) Inflection templates: {{en-conj|old=1}}
  1. (archaic) To cause (something) to be or taste bitter; to bitter. Tags: archaic, transitive Synonyms: acerbate
    Sense id: en-embitter-en-verb-x36KbTDz Categories (other): English terms prefixed with em- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with em-: 31 39 30
  2. (figurative)
    To cause (a positive quality such as happiness, or a thing such as an activity or one's life) to become less good or pleasurable; also, to make (a negative quality, or thing such as a disagreement) worse or more unpleasant.
    Tags: figuratively, transitive Translations (to cause (a positive quality or a thing) to become less good or pleasurable; to make (a negative quality or thing) worse or more unpleasant): katkeroittaa (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-embitter-en-verb-bP-qYpTT Categories (other): English terms prefixed with em- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with em-: 31 39 30 Disambiguation of 'to cause (a positive quality or a thing) to become less good or pleasurable; to make (a negative quality or thing) worse or more unpleasant': 27 47 26
  3. (figurative)
    To cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly; to envenom.
    Tags: figuratively, transitive Translations (to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly): вгорчавам (vgorčavam) (Bulgarian), amarigi (Esperanto), katkeroittaa (Finnish), aigrir (French), picar (Galician), verbittern (German), bitrigar (Ido), whakakawa (Maori), whakakawakawa (Maori), whakamauāhara (Maori), amargar (Portuguese), hayay (Quechua), наполня́ть го́речью (napolnjátʹ górečʹju) [imperfective] (Russian), отравля́ть (otravljátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), отрави́ть (otravítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), озлобля́ть (ozlobljátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), озло́бить (ozlóbitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), раздража́ть (razdražátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), раздражи́ть (razdražítʹ) [perfective] (Russian), amargar (Spanish), ekşitmek (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-embitter-en-verb-5e6dE6AK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with em-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Quechua translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Turkish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 14 33 52 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with em-: 31 39 30 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 20 18 62 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 20 21 59 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 11 10 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 18 17 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 13 12 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 18 17 65 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 17 15 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 18 17 65 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 17 15 68 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 11 10 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 18 17 65 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 17 17 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Quechua translations: 14 12 74 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 13 12 75 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 11 12 76 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 17 17 66 Disambiguation of 'to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly': 31 26 43
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: imbitter [obsolete] Derived forms: disembitter, embittered [adjective], embitterer, embittering [adjective, noun], embitterment, unembittered Related terms: embetter

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "text": "The Proſpect of Death is ſo gloomy and diſmal, that if it vvere conſtantly before our Eyes, it vvould imbitter all the Svveets of Life.",
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          "text": "It is with extreme reluctance that I dwell upon the appalling scene which ensued; a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory, and whose stern recollection will imbitter every future moment of my existence.",
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          "roman": "napolnjátʹ górečʹju",
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          "roman": "otravljátʹ",
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    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Ido translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Quechua translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Turkish translations"
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        "To cause (something) to be or taste bitter; to bitter."
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        "(archaic) To cause (something) to be or taste bitter; to bitter."
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          "word": "acerbate"
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          "ref": "1713 April 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “Wednesday, April 1. 1713.”, in The Guardian, number 18, London: […] J[acob] Tonson […]; and sold by A. Baldwin […], →OCLC, page [1], column 1:",
          "text": "The Proſpect of Death is ſo gloomy and diſmal, that if it vvere conſtantly before our Eyes, it vvould imbitter all the Svveets of Life.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1776, Edward Gibbon, “Of the Constitution of the Roman Empire, in the Age of the Antonines”, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 80:",
          "text": "A juſt, but melancholy reflection, embittered, hovvever, the nobleſt of human enjoyments.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 4:",
          "text": "Two circumstances only had embittered their union, which was otherwise as happy as mutual affection could render it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 107:",
          "text": "It is with extreme reluctance that I dwell upon the appalling scene which ensued; a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory, and whose stern recollection will imbitter every future moment of my existence.",
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          "ref": "1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VI, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 38:",
          "text": "But his prosperity was embittered by one insupportable recollection. He never regained his cheerfulness, and at length died by his own hand.",
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          "text": "She was at once humiliated and embittered; but the warm heart, and the strong mind, must have an object; and her energies, equally with her affections, had concentrated themselves on her son.",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause (a positive quality or a thing) to become less good or pleasurable; to make (a negative quality or thing) worse or more unpleasant",
      "word": "katkeroittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "vgorčavam",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "вгорчавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "amarigi"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "katkeroittaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "aigrir"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "picar"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "verbittern"
    },
    {
      "code": "io",
      "lang": "Ido",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "bitrigar"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "whakakawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "whakakawakawa"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "whakamauāhara"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "amargar"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "hayay"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "napolnjátʹ górečʹju",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "наполня́ть го́речью"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otravljátʹ",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "отравля́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "otravítʹ",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "отрави́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ozlobljátʹ",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "озлобля́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ozlóbitʹ",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "озло́бить"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razdražátʹ",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "раздража́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "razdražítʹ",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "раздражи́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "amargar"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "to cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly",
      "word": "ekşitmek"
    }
  ],
  "word": "embitter"
}

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