Word Meanings - EMBITTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EMBITTER)

• Aggravate
• Exasperate
• provoke
• wound
• heighten
• intensify
• irritate
• make worse
• increase
• enhance embitter
• magnify
• Enrage
• Provoke
• incite
• madden
• incense
• excite
• aggravate
• inflame
• embitter
• infuriate
• exasperate

Related words: (words related to EMBITTER)

• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• INCENSEMENT
  Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
• INCREASE
  The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• WORSE
  Bad, ill, evil, or corrupt, in a greater degree; more bad or evil; less good; specifically, in poorer health; more sick; -- used both in a physical and moral sense. Or worse, if men worse can devise. Chaucer. was nothing bettered, but rather grew
• WORSER
  Worse. Thou dost deserve a worser end. Beau. & Fl. From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. Bunyan. A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war. Dryden. Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs
• MAGNIFY
  1. To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one
• INCENSER
  One who instigates or incites.
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• ENHANCER
  One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.
• INCITEMENT
  1. The act of inciting. 2. That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope. Syn. -- Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse;
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• PROVOKEMENT
  The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak.
• INFURIATED
  Enraged; furious.
• WOUNDLESS
  Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.
• MADDEN
  To become mad; to act as if mad. They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Pope.
• EXASPERATER
  One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• EXASPERATE
  Exasperated; imbittered. Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning. (more info) roughen, exasperate; ex out + asperare to make rough, asper
• 'SWOUNDS
  An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• SWOUND
  See LONGFELLOW
• INCENSE
  1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman. 2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.