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# embitter

«embitter» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to make them resentful and angry for a long time, after…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (embitters, embittered, embittering)

### meaning for a pupil

To embitter someone is to make them resentful and angry for a long time, after they have been hurt or treated unfairly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/embitter/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: In Psalm 106 the people made Moses' spirit bitter, so he spoke without thinking at Meribah. Interpretation: Tradition sees this as the cause of Moses not entering the Land. In the primary lessons: in tales, a hurt character becomes bitter and then plans revenge on those who wronged him

### examples

- For they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips. (Writings PSA.106.33, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/embitter/#x1)
- The unfair loss embittered him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/embitter/#x2)
- Years of teasing embittered the poor boy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/embitter/#x3)
- The king grew more embittered each day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/embitter/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [For they embittered his spirit, and he spoke rashly with his lips.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1939/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «embitter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/embitter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.