embitter
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 →
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 →
- The unfair loss embittered him. tree →
- Years of teasing embittered the poor boy. tree →
- The king grew more embittered each day. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «embitter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.