Meaning of amargar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to have a bitter taste
   intransitive
2. to make bitter or sour
   transitive
3. to embitter, to sour, to spoil
   figuratively, transitive

Examples

“El moixó és un peix petit, que menja la vegetació del litoral i amarga una mica; té el gust una mica acre de les pastures assolellades.”

The big-scale sand smelt is a small fish which eats littoral vegetation and tastes a little bitter; it has the slightly acrid flavour of sunny pastures.

“Amargada i afligida per la soptada mort del fill fadrí, Jaume de Viciana, la vídua de Rampston s'arrecera al costat de la filla casada Àngela i se'n va a València, no sense abans vendre el propi patrimoni i l'heretat del vincle a Castelló i Borriana.”

Embittered and afflicted by the sudden death of her unmarried son, Jaume de Viciana, Rampston's widow took shelter at the side of her married daughter Àngela and went to Valencia, not without first selling her own inheritance and that held in security to Castelló i Borriana.

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