0 to make someone feel embittered (= very angry about things that have happened to you): --
These attacks embitter or disillusion some soldiers.
1 to make someone feel angry and unhappy for a long time: --
Otherwise, sanctions can drag on in embittering ineffectiveness.
You will embitter the very people who are holding out.
They dominate the political scene, and on that account may further embitter the relations between the two communities.
There are few things which so embitter a man as being unemployed.
I feel that this is something which could well disappoint and embitter many people in this country.
The risk of embittering relations with his employees would remain and might be increased.
We must remove from the world the threat of an impending war which is hampering our recovery and embittering international relations.
I have been given, now and again, a dozen excuses, but an excuse, unless it is a very good excuse, only annoys, only embitters.
