Definition of Embittered

1. Verb. (past of embitter) ¹

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Definition of Embittered

1. embitter [v] - See also: embitter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embittered

embezzlement
embezzlements
embezzler
embezzlers
embezzles
embezzling
embiggen
embiggened
embiggening
embiggens
embillow
embiopteran
embiotocoid
embiotocoids
embitter
embittered
embitteredly
embitteredness
embitterer
embitterers
embittering
embitterment
embitterments
embitters
emblanch
emblanched
emblanching
emblaze
emblazed
emblazer

Literary usage of Embittered

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"For all the trade of Germany had been dislocated and the mercantile classes embittered by the Napoleonic "Continental System," which was to ruin Britain by ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... declared the sad perplexity of the barbarians ; and their aged chief lamented, in pathetic language, that his private loss was now embittered by a sense ..."

3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1922)
"For all the trade of Germany had been dislocated and the mercantile classes embittered by the Napoleonic "Continental System," which was to ruin Britain by ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"... declared the sad perplexity of the barbarians ; and their aged chief lamented, in pathetic language, that his private loss was now embittered by a sense ..."

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