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• v  cause to be bitter or resentful
• v  add poison to

• Ahead as well lay the uncertain prospect of American casualties -- losses that could further envenom what was already a passionate post-cold war debate.

• embitter
• acerbate
• poison

Quotes

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• Abdullah Gul in Brussels Journal
  Nicolas Sarkozy and Abdullah Gül agreed that the European question could not be resolved in the near future and that, consequently, it "should not envenom all relations between the two countries," reports Elysée.