embittering

  • 41corrosion — n. 1. Erosion, eating away. 2. Wasting, wearing away, consuming, gnawing away. 3. Blighting, poisoning, embittering …

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  • 42corrosive — a. 1. Corroding, consuming, eroding, erosive, catheretic, caustic, acrid, virulent, eating away. 2. Corroding, wasting, consuming, gnawing wearing. 3. Blighting, poisoning, envenoming, embittering, carking …

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  • 43annoying — adj 1. bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, vexatious; troublesome, troubling, thorny, fretful, worrisome, worrying, Dial. plaguy; hectoring, harassing, hounding, dogging, nagging, tormenting. 2. nettlesome, nettling, irritating,… …

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  • 44exacerbation — n 1. aggravation, intensification, heightening, deepening, sharpening, worsening. 2. embittering, envenoming, acerbating, galling, rankling, souring, poisoning. 3. exasperation, exasperating, ruffling, chafing, putting out; angering, infuriating …

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  • 45galling — adj irritating, chafing, rasping, stinging; exasperating, exacerbating, acerbating, embittering, rankling; annoying, provoking, peeving, nettling, net tlesome, Inf. aggravating; vexatious, vexing, irksome, irking; troublesome, thorny, fretful …

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  • 46irritating — adj 1. provoking, agitating, inflaming, inflammatory, enflaming, kindling; inciting, igniting, instigating. 2. angering, incensing, irksome, irking; maddening, infuriating, enraging; exacerbating, rankling, galling, embittering. 3. nettlesome,… …

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  • 47nettlesome — adj nettling, irritating, Inf. aggravating, Inf. in one s hair; disturbing, perturbing, ruffling, disquieting, vexing. 2. annoying, bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, vexatious; troublesome, troubling, thorny, fretful, worrisome …

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  • 48vexatious — adj 1. bothersome, pestering, Inf. pesky, Inf. pestiferous, hectoring, harassing; hounding, dogging, nagging, tormenting, persecuting; troublesome, troubling, thorny, fretful, worrisome, worrying, Archaic, except Dial. plaguy. 2. irritating,… …

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  • 49onerous — [adj] difficult; requiring hard labor arduous, austere, backbreaking, burdensome, crushing, cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, embittering, exacting, excessive, exhausting, exigent, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grave, grinding,… …

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  • 50em|bit|ter|ment — «ehm BIHT uhr muhnt», noun. the action of embittering or condition of being embittered …

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