Word Meanings - IMBITTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMBITTER)

• Anger Enrage
• vex
• kindle
• fret
• ruffle
• chafe
• infuriate
• exasperate
• provoke
• irritate
• incense
• wound
• inflame
• imbitter
• Inflame
• Fire
• excite
• rouse
• fan
• madden
• Irritate
• Imbitter
• auger
• enrage

Related words: (words related to IMBITTER)

• AUGER
  nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• IMBITTER
  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.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• RUFFLEMENT
  The act of ruffling.
• CHAFER
  1. One who chafes. 2. A vessel for heating water; -- hence, a dish or pan. A chafer of water to cool the ends of the irons. Baker.
• IMBITTERMENT
  The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
• INCENSEMENT
  Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• CHAFERY
  An open furnace or forge, in which blooms are heated before being wrought into bars.
• INCENSER
  One who instigates or incites.
• CHAFEWAX; CHAFFWAX
  Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.
• RUFFLER
  1. One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton. 2. That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles.
• 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.
• CHAFEWEED
  The cudweed , used to prevent or cure chafing.
• CHAFE
  1. Heat excited by friction. 2. Injury or wear caused by friction. 3. Vexation; irritation of mind; rage. The cardinal in a chafe sent for him to Whitehall. Camden.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• SAUGER
  An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• TRUFFLE
  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
• COCKCHAFER
  A beetle of the genus Melolontha and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
• GAUGER
  One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.