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Meaning of amarigi | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
amaˈriɡi

Definitions

  1. to make bitter (in literal and figurative senses); to embitter
    transitive
  2. to become bitter (in literal and figurative senses)
    intransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Vilhelmo Lutermano (translator) La Transformiĝo (Die Verwandlung / The Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka,”

Gregor was so exasperated (lit. embittered) when the cleaning woman started in again with her phrases that he turned on her, of course slowly and decrepitly, as if to attack. (Stanley Corngold translation, Norton, 1996)

“T. Pumpr (translator), “Malbona persono” by Karel Horký in Ĉeĥa kaj slovaka antologio, Part 1,”

It was only at the end of the meal that I realized my mistake and the food became bitter in my mouth.

“Sylvan Zaft, “Frostsezonaj Pekoj””

In the last years she became bitter, partly because of his endless complaining about [his] pseudo-profession and partly because of her envy toward her two sisters whose husbands had done extremely well for themselves

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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