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Imbitter vs Embitter - What's the difference?

imbitter | embitter |

As verbs the difference between imbitter and embitter

is that imbitter is an alternative spelling of embitter while embitter is to cause to be bitter.

imbitter

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=Samuel Johnson, title=Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Their pleasures, poor as they were, could not be preserved pure, but were imbittered by petty competitions, and worthless emulation. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1873, author=David Livingstone, title=Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But my joy on reaching the east coast was sadly imbittered by the news that Commander MacLune
  • * {{quote-book, year=1889, author=Theodore Roosevelt, title=The Winning of the West, Volume Four, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Naturally the Tennesseeans, conscious that they had not wronged the Indians, and had scrupulously observed the treaty, grew imbittered over, the wanton Indian outrages. }}

    embitter

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause to be bitter.

    • See also

    * embetter * acerbate