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Webster 1913 Edition

Imbitter

Im-bit′ter

,
Verb.
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.
Is there anything that more
imbitters
the enjoyment of this life than shame?
South.
Imbittered
against each other by former contests.
Bancroft.

Webster 1828 Edition

Imbitter

IMBIT'TER

,
Verb.
T.
[in and bitter.] To make bitter.
1.
To make unhappy or grievous; to render distressing. The sins of youth often imbitter old age. Grief imbitters our enjoyments.
2.
To exasperate; to make more severe, poignant or painful. The sorrows of true penitence are imbittered by a sense of our ingratitude to our Almighty Benefactor.
3.
To exasperate; to render more violent or malignant; as, to imbitter enmity, anger, rage, passion, &c.

Definition 2024

imbitter

imbitter

English

Verb

imbitter ‎(third-person singular simple present imbitters, present participle imbittering, simple past and past participle imbittered)

  1. Alternative spelling of embitter
    • 1825, Samuel Johnson, Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1:
      Their pleasures, poor as they were, could not be preserved pure, but were imbittered by petty competitions, and worthless emulation.
    • 1873, David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa:
      But my joy on reaching the east coast was sadly imbittered by the news that Commander MacLune [<span title=", of H. M. brigantine "Dart", on coming in to Kilimane to pick me up,">…] had, with Lieutenant Woodruffe and five men, been lost on the bar.
    • 1889, Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West, Volume Four:
      Naturally the Tennesseeans, conscious that they had not wronged the Indians, and had scrupulously observed the treaty, grew imbittered over, the wanton Indian outrages.

Etymology

im- +‎ bitter

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