Definition of "imbitter"
imbitter
verb
third-person singular simple present imbitters, present participle imbittering, simple past and past participle imbittered
Quotations
The superstition of the people was not imbittered by any mixture of theological rancor; nor was it confined by the chains of any speculative system.
1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter II, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […]
It is with extreme reluctance that I dwell upon the appalling scene which ensued; a scene which, with its minutest details, no after events have been able to efface in the slightest degree from my memory, and whose stern recollection will imbitter every future moment of my existence.
1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], page 107