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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
acerbate, afflict, agent provocateur, aggravate, aggrieve, alienate, amplify, anguish, annoy, antagonize, arouse, augment, bitter, break down, bring to tears, bristle, build up, chafe, crush, cut up, damage, deepen, desolate, deteriorate, dilapidate, draw tears, endamage, enhance, enlarge, envenom, estrange, exacerbate, exasperate, fret, grieve, harm, heat up, heighten, hot up, huff, hurt, impair, incense, increase, inflame, infuriate, injure, intensify, inundate, irritate, madden, magnify, make acute, make worse, miff, nettle, oppress, overwhelm, peeve, pique, prostrate, provoke, put back, rankle, rile, roil, ruffle, set against, set at odds, set up, sharpen, sorrow, sour, stir the blood, stir up, torment, vex, weaken, work up, worsen
Dictionary Results for embitter:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
embitter
    v 1: cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices
         embittered her even more" [syn: embitter, envenom,
         acerbate]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Imbitter \Im*bit"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imbittered; p. pr.
   & vb. n. Imbittering.] [Pref. im- in + bitter. Cf.
   Embitter.] [Written also embitter.]
   To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more
   distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.
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         Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of
         this life than shame?                    --South.
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         Imbittered against each other by former contests.
                                                  --Bancroft.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Embitter \Em*bit"ter\, v. t.
   To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
   [1913 Webster]

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