embitter
/ɪmˈbɪtə
/ /ɛmˈbɪtə/verb [with object] (usually as adjective embittered)
Make (someone) feel bitter or resentful: he died an embittered man...
- Those triumphs quickly turned sour when looting and lawlessness took over the thinly patrolled streets, embittering residents, stalling reconstruction and giving the insurgency a jump-start on the occupation authorities.
- Further, the decision has the potential to embitter me to the point where I will actively campaign my classmates (which, as you know, had record levels of participation in alumni giving) to stop giving money, as well.
- Desmond Tutu said that long-suffering can embitter you, but it can also change you in a great way and Mandela has done the latter.
Synonyms
make bitter, make resentful, sour, anger, poison, envenom, make rancorous, jaundice, antagonize, vex, frustrate, alienate;
disillusion, disaffect, dissatisfy, discourage;
North American rankle
Derivatives
embitterment
/ /ɛmˈbɪtəm(ə)nt / noun ...- Reducing inmates - who are mostly non-violent drug offenders - to nameless fodder in a merciless system has only caused embitterment and prevented the majority of released felons from being able to reintegrate back into society.
- A constant and almost unchallenged emphasis on ‘social justice,’ the negation of which is, of course, ‘discrimination,’ can breed only festering embitterment.
- It must also add a great deal to the rage and embitterment of the Christian or traditionalist Right.