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单词 embittering
释义 I. embittering, vbl. n.|ɛmˈbɪtərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb embitter.
1617Hieron Wks. II. 340 The vsing of euill speech hee [Saint James] likeneth to the imbittering..of the Fountaine.
II. embittering, ppl. a.|ɛmˈbɪtərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That embitters or tends to embitter.
1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 209 This embittering circumstance would spoil their relish.1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. III. iv. 356 The suspicion..was embittering.Ibid. IV. v. 121 The imbittering discovery that, etc.
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