Embitter Synonyms and Antonyms

ĕm-bĭtər
To make or become bitter
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. sour
Upset, alienate
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. envenom
  2. anger
  3. sour
  4. rankle
  5. exacerbate
  6. acerbate
  7. acidulate
  8. aggravate
  9. ire
  10. madden
  11. upset
Antonyms:
  1. make happy
  2. pacify
  3. calm
  4. comfort
Synonyms:
(Noun)
  1. exacerbation
  2. rancor
Synonyms:
(Adjective)
  1. embittered
  2. rancorous

Words Related to Embitter

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Embitter Sentence Examples

  • Many circumstances concurred to embitter the latter years of his life.

  • Domestic afflictions combined with numerous and painful infirmities to embitter his old age.

  • The brutal treatment he had experienced in boyhood under the orders of Adil Shah, and the opprobrious name of eunuch with which be was taunted by his enemies, no doubt contributed to embitter his nature.

  • Under more favourable conditions Louis would have gained a name for kindness and philanthropy, proofs of which did indeed appear during his reign in Holland and gained him the esteem of his subjects; but his morbid sensitiveness served to embitter his relations both of a domestic and of,'a political nature and to sour his own disposition.

  • The anticipated agreement, however, was not attained; and the result of the council was simply to embitter the relations between the two great religious parties, and those between the Western and Eastern halves of the Empire.

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