Embitter

Definition: Embitter

Embitter

Verb

1. Cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices embittered her even more".

Date "embitter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Embitter

Synonyms: acerbate (v), envenom (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aggravation	Verb: aggravate, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate; exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease.
Deterioration	Embitter, acerbate, exacerbate, aggravate.
Resentment	Cause anger, raise anger; affront, offend; give offense, give umbrage; anger; hurt the feelings; insult, discompose, fret, ruffle, nettle, huff, pique; excite; irritate, stir the blood, stir up bile; sting, sting to the quick; rile, provoke, chafe, wound, incense, inflame, enrage, aggravate, add fuel to the flame, fan into a flame, widen the breach, envenom, embitter, exasperate, infuriate, kindle wrath; stick in one's gizzard; rankle &e.; hit on the raw, rub on the raw, sting on the raw, strike on the raw.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Embitter

English words defined with "embitter": simple fracture. (references)

"Embitter" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Embitter" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	80%	4	175,879
Noun (singular)	20%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	5	N/A

Expression using "embitter": embitter someone's life. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "embitter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zeheroj (poison), hidhëroj (afflict, aggrieve, chagrin, deject, disappoint, discompose, distress, grieve, make miserable, make trouble), dëshpëroj (cast down, despair, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, get down, sadden). (various references)

Arabic		‏كدر (annoy, annoyance, cloudiness, distress, disturb, make turbid, muddiness, muddle, muddy, offend, roil, ruffle, spoil, trouble, turbid, turbidity, unsettle), ‏مر الشىء, ‏غيظ (anger, annoy, chafe, fret, gall, incense, infuriate, ire, irritate, madden, nettle, offend, peeve, pique, provoke, rage, resentment, rib, rile, ruffle, scandalize, spite, twit, vex, wrath), ‏غضب (aggravate, anger, annoy, be angry, be irritated, chafe, crab, dander, displease, enrage, exasperate, exasperation, fire, flounce, fret, fume, gall, get on his nerves, get smb.'s goat, go mad, grumpiness, harrow, heat, incense, indignation, inflame, infuriate, irascibility, ire, irritate, irritation, itch, jitter, lose one's shirt, mad, madden, miff, nettle, offend, outcry, outrage, peeve, pet, pique, pout, provoke, rage, resentment, rile, rough, ruffle, seethe, soreness, sour, spite, spleen, twit, vex), ‏زاده مرارة. (various references)

Bulgarian		вгорчавам, отравям (blight, empoison, envenom, intoxicate, poison, unearth), огорчавам (afflict, aggrieve, envenom, exacerbate, gall, grieve, lacerate, mortify, pain), озлобявам (acerbate), ожесточавам (envenom, exacerbate), причинявам мъка, подгорчавам. (various references)

Czech		roztrpèit (irritate). (various references)

Farsi		ناگوارکردن , تلخ کردن (Employment), بدترکردن (Aggravate, Deteriorate, Exacerbate, Exasperate, Worsen). (various references)

Finnish		katkeroittaa. (various references)

French		aigrir. (various references)

German		verbittern (acerbate, become bitter, become embittered, make bitter, sour). (various references)

Greek		πικραίνω (mortify). (various references)

Hebrew		למרר (cause bitterness, distress, grieve), ל�"לעין. (various references)

Hungarian		elkeserít (acerbate, cut up, make miserable, to embitter, to exacerbate, to exasperate, to sour), megkeserít (to embitter, to sour). (various references)

Indonesian		memperhebat, memperdahsyat. (various references)

Italian		inasprire (aggravate, become embittered, become harsher, exacerbate, sharpen), amareggiare. (various references)

Manx		sharrooaghey, jannoo sharroo (acidify, acidulate). (various references)

Norwegian		gjøre bitter, forbitre. (various references)

Pig Latin		embitteray

Portuguese		peculário, amargar (bitter). (various references)

Romanian		zgândãri (aggravate, anger, rake, sharpen, touch), otrãvi (corrupt, empoison, envenom, infect, poison), face amar, cãtrãni (envenom, grieve, tar, vex), amãrî (agrieve, envenom, sadden, sour), agrava (aggravate, deteriorate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen), învenina (empoison, envenom, poison), înrãutãţi (deteriorate, pervert, worsen), înrãi (steel), îndârji (stiffen), înãspri (aggravate, harden, roughen, sharpen, steel, worsen). (various references)

Russian		озлоблять (acerbate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zagorčati (make miserable), ozlojediti, ožučiti. (various references)

Spanish		envenenar (bane, empoison, envenom, poison), hacer amargo, amargar (acrimoniously, bitter, bitterly, sour). (various references)

Swedish		förbittra (exacerbate, exasperate, fester). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้ผู้อื่นขมขื่น. (various references)

Turkish		ekşitmek (acetify, acidify, cause to ferment, render sour), körüklemek (blow, blow with bellows, fan, instigate, rush up, wake, waken, work up), hırçınlaştırmak, dünyadan nefret ettirmek. (various references)

Ukranian		ятрити, роздратовувати (acerbate, anger, discontent, dislike, exacerbate, fash, fret, frump, goad, huff, irk, needle, nettle, nip, peeve, rile, terrify, wear on), озлобляти (acerbate, stone). (various references)

Welsh		chwerwi (become rough, grow bitter). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	acerbo, exulcero. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "embitter": embittered, embittering, embitterment, embitterments, embitters. (additional references)
	Words containing "embitter": unembittered. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Embitter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: embittr. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "embitter" (pronounced embi"ter)
4	-b i" t er	bitter.
3	-i" t er	aglitter, critter, fitter, fritter, glitter, hitter, knitter, litter, quitter, Ritter, sitar, sitter, titter, transmitter.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-i-m-r-t-t"
	-1 letter: emitter, termite.
	-2 letters: bemire, berime, betime, better, bireme, bitter, metier, reemit, retime, timber, timbre.
	-3 letters: beret, berme, biter, britt, ember, merit, meter, metre, miter, mitre, remet, remit, retem, retie, timer, titer, titre, tribe, trite.
	-4 letters: beer, beet, berm, bier, bite, bitt, bree, brie, brim, brit, emir, emit, item, meet, mere, mete, mire, mite, mitt, rete, rime, rite, teem, term, tier, time, tire, tree, tret, trim.
	-5 letters: bee, bet, bit, eme, ere, ire, met, mib, mir, reb, ree, rei, rem, ret, rib, rim, tee, tet, tie, tit.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-i-m-r-t-t"
	+1 letter: embitters, embrittle.
	+2 letters: embittered, embrittled, embrittles, imbittered, remittable, trembliest.
	+3 letters: embittering, resubmitted.
	+4 letters: bathymetries, biotelemetry, embitterment, turbidimeter, unembittered.
	+5 letters: ambidexterity, biotelemetric, embitterments, embrittlement, turbidimeters.
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