Meanings of acerbate in English

Lady Laura had triumphed; but she had no desire to acerbate her husband by any unpalatable allusion to her victory.

The poor girl had not spirit sufficient to upbraid her friend; nor did it suit her now to acerbate an enemy.

They are often perturbed and acerbated, and sometimes diverted from their proper course by the winds of adverse comment.

And personally his feelings had been acerbated in that he had been called 'mate' by a man not half his age.

On the Monday morning John Ball said something respecting Margaret to his mother which acerbated that lady more than ever against her niece.

Lord Palmerston, too, was a typical example of a leader lulling, rather than arousing, assuaging rather than acerbating the minds of his followers.