0 to make someone feel embittered (= very angry about things that have happened to you):
These attacks embitter or disillusion some soldiers.
The constant killing of innocents is embittering a new generation.
The debate embitters our attitude to other European countries and makes us forget how much we share.
Transforming 'angry young men' into embittered, cynical 'couch-potatoes'.
Even here, in this compassionate reaction, are latently present the troubling elements-the implied comparison of scales of suffering and horror-that would later embitter identification.
To this embittered youth, the military not only fails at redressing social wrongs; it also upholds the country's inequalities.
Some become embittered by events.
I believe it has had the effect of hardening and embittering this matter.
