Definitions for embitter

embitter em·bit·ter

Spelling: [em-bit-er]
IPA: /ɛmˈbɪt ər/

Embitter is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 173 anagrams from letters in embitter (beeimrtt).

Definitions for embitter

verb (used with object)

  1. to make bitter; cause to feel bitterness:
  2. to make bitter or more bitter in taste.

Origin of embitter

First recorded in 1595-1605; em-1 + bitter

Examples for embitter

Reflect that you may gladden and beautify your lives, or embitter them, according as you now act.

I care not what turn the thing may take; I 'll not embitter my life with this reflection.'

Its effect was to so embitter Palmer that he set about getting rid of Jake at once.

I embitter your life, and you make—perhaps you cannot make mine happy.

Lorand did not wish to embitter the poor girl by laughing in her face at her simplicity.

The outbreak of hostilities often tends to embitter the strife of parties.

It might embitter it all, but it could never prevent him from the outward act.

He has had much to embitter him,' he murmured, and straightway fainted again.

What would this be but to embitter his reflections needlessly.

And I will embitter thy life, and poison it, first: and then I will take it away.

Word Value for embitter
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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