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  • verb Present participle of embitter.

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Examples

  • He is now a gray haired old man, with one sorrow over his one act of disobedience, one wrong word embittering all his life -- with those words ever ringing in his ears, "Mother, I don't love you now."

    Children's Edition of Touching Incidents : and Remarkable Answers to Prayer

  • The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful and the more embittering it is.

    Brian Jones: Karl Marx: Teacher of the Year? Brian Jones 2011

  • Worst of all, economically, the hard knocks and lucky breaks of life, which people generally accept when they are distributed by fate, become politicized, and therefore embittering.

    My Inflation Nightmare 2010

  • Worst of all, economically, the hard knocks and lucky breaks of life, which people generally accept when they are distributed by fate, become politicized, and therefore embittering.

    My Inflation Nightmare 2010

  • Worst of all, economically, the hard knocks and lucky breaks of life, which people generally accept when they are distributed by fate, become politicized, and therefore embittering.

    My Inflation Nightmare 2010

  • The more openly this despotism proclaims gain to be its end and aim, the more petty, the more hateful and the more embittering it is.

    Brian Jones: Karl Marx: Teacher of the Year? Brian Jones 2011

  • So you're right to order the army not to fire: The last thing you need is to furnish the protesters with a galvanizing event, or the officers with an embittering one.

    Being Hosni Mubarak Bret Stephens 2011

  • The embittering assault on public education has created a response.

    Brian Jones: Karl Marx: Teacher of the Year? Brian Jones 2011

  • The embittering assault on public education has created a response.

    Brian Jones: Karl Marx: Teacher of the Year? Brian Jones 2011

  • Worst of all, economically, the hard knocks and lucky breaks of life, which people generally accept when they are distributed by fate, become politicized, and therefore embittering.

    My Inflation Nightmare 2010

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