IMBIT'TER, v.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.
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