embitter
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embitter englanniksi
(synonyms)
To cause (a positive quality such as happiness, or a thing such as an activity or one's life) to become less good or pleasurable; also, to make (a negative quality, or thing such as a disagreement) worse or more unpleasant.
(RQ:Fuller Holy State)
(RQ:Barrow Works)
(RQ:Guardian 1713)
(RQ:Johnson Prince of Abissinia)
(RQ:Gibbon Roman Empire)
(RQ:Burke Revolution in France)
(quote-book)|translator=William Tooke|title=Sermons on Prevalent Errors and Vices, and on Various Other Topics;(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) &91;Nichols (printer)|John Nichols and Son&93; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,(nb...)|volume=I|page=292|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDUNAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA292|oclc=31342186|passage=Thou offendest, thou injurest not God, indeed, when thou sinnest, o man, but thou offendest, thou injurest thyself; (..) Thou embitterest to thyself the enjoyment of a thousand innocent pleasures, and bereavest thyself of the noblest, the purest joys.
(RQ:Scott Abbot)
(RQ:Poe Pym)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
(RQ:Livingstone South Africa)
To cause (someone or their feelings) to become more angry, resentful, or unfriendly; to envenom.
(quote-book) 10. ''Through mere pride doth man make contentions; but with the well aduised is wisedome.''|title=A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Chapters of the of Proverbs|Prouerbs of Salomon|location=London|publisher=(...) R. Bradock for Roger Iackson,(nb...)|page=26|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=IZtkAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA26|oclc=228714520|passage=Sometimes it (quote-gloss) ſtirreth vp men, and imboldeneth them to offer vvrongs: ſometimes imbittereth men; and maketh them vvayvvard againſt the right: (..)
(RQ:Sanderson Two Sermons)
(RQ:Burnet Rights of Princes)
(RQ:Landon Ethel Churchill)