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Verb: acerbate  'a-sur`beyt
  1. Cause to be bitter or resentful
    "These injustices acerbated her even more"
    - embitter, envenom [archaic]
     
  2. Make sour or bitter

Derived forms: acerbates, acerbating, acerbated

See also: acerbity

Type of: alter, change, modify

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