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Meanings of embitter in English
Synonyms
Examples for "envenom"
Examples for "envenom"
1
The meat of the one man shall envenom the meat of the other.
2
I rushed forward, regretting only that I had not had time to envenom my blade.
3
The real difficulty being social and racial, to mix politics with it was to envenom it.
4
These notaries are strange fellows; they envenom everything.
5
That kindred subsisted between them was possible, notwithstanding this dissimilitude; but this circumstance contributed to envenom my suspicions.
1
Lady Laura had triumphed; but she had no desire to acerbate her husband by any unpalatable allusion to her victory.
2
The poor girl had not spirit sufficient to upbraid her friend; nor did it suit her now to acerbate an enemy.
3
They are often perturbed and acerbated, and sometimes diverted from their proper course by the winds of adverse comment.
4
And personally his feelings had been acerbated in that he had been called 'mate' by a man not half his age.
5
On the Monday morning John Ball said something respecting Margaret to his mother which acerbated that lady more than ever against her niece.
Usage of embitter in English
1
Sorrow may enrich the nature or it may embitter and narrow it.
2
The outbreak of hostilities often tends to embitter the strife of parties.
3
The marvel is that this did not embitter him against the church.
4
Contrary to his expectations, his disagreement didn't embitter Brother Timothy at all.
5
It will embitter and degrade our politics, and dislocate our Parliamentary institutions.
6
The discussion could, indeed, serve no purpose, save to embitter the quarrel.
7
I embitter your life, and you make-perhapsyou cannot make mine happy.
8
Surely in old age, before the infirmities come which weaken or embitter.
9
A discovery of any mystery of your past would embitter our lives.'
10
Would the hard life embitter her, or would she sink under it?
11
For what cause do they embitter their own and other people's lives?
12
Why should you let a moment's forgetfulness embitter all our future life?
13
All this served to embitter the relations between the emperor and the prince.
14
If it is not sufficient blows have no restraining effect; they only embitter.
15
I pray that the national aspect involved will not disgust and embitter you.
16
This is the sort of thoughtless remark that tends to embitter the unemployed.
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United Kingdom
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