embitter
em bi ter
- v cause to be bitter or resentful
These injustices embittered her even more
- But it has also helped embitter it.
- Day by desperate day, he records sights and events that embitter his spirit: a child's ball emblazoned with a swastika; the loss of his teaching post.
- Such a course would, according to MacArthur, "embitter the Japanese people toward us and render Japan vulnerable to ideological pressure and a fertile field for subversive action.