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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
embitter .
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Examples
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… I think it embitters them and makes them hate learning.
Study: College students rarely use librarians' expertise 2011
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You never doubt the ugliness of the anti-Semitism that embitters Shylock.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Al Pacino in Subtle Merchant Of Venice; An Obvious Elf and More Michael Giltz 2010
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He pressed Israel to freeze construction of settlements on land that belonged rightly to Israel, and in November 2009 issued a veiled warning: settlement construction, he said, “embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous.”
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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The drink of revenge distorts and embitters the soul, but the meat of forgiveness strengthens it.
Eric Simpson: I Changed My Mind on the Death Penalty Eric Simpson 2010
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He pressed Israel to freeze construction of settlements on land that belonged rightly to Israel, and in November 2009 issued a veiled warning: settlement construction, he said, “embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous.”
Post-American Presidency Pamela Geller 2010
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You never doubt the ugliness of the anti-Semitism that embitters Shylock.
Michael Giltz: Theater: Al Pacino in Subtle Merchant Of Venice; An Obvious Elf and More Michael Giltz 2010
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I think it embitters the Palestinians in a way that could end up being very dangerous.
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The very fact that European voices failed to make it clear that Hamas is condemned as well as Israel, embitters Israelis.
Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea: Gaza, Iranian Rockets and J Street 2009
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This clearly upsets and embitters some of the Clinton supporters who feel, well, entitled to our unquestioning support.
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That is our system and the reason it's worth all the time and expense, and even the risk that some will escape justice, is because those speedy trials without compentent counsel can lead to gross injustice which leaves a cloud of suspicion on the system that embitters the people it governs and ultimately makes their governance impossible.
Archive 2007-01-01 Ellen Beth Gill 2007
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