EMBITTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embitter mean? 

• EMBITTER (verb)
  The verb EMBITTER has 1 sense:

1. cause to be bitter or resentful

  Familiarity information: EMBITTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBITTER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they embitter    ... he / she / it embitters   
Past simple: embittered   
Past participle: embittered   
-ing form: embittering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to be bitter or resentful

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

acerbate; embitter; envenom

Context example:

These injustices embittered her even more

Cause:

resent (feel bitter or indignant about)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

embitterment (the state of being embittered)

 Context examples 

“It embittered the life of your poor mother. You are right. I hope you may do better, yet; I hope you may correct yourself.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

But every circumstance that could embitter such an evil seemed uniting to heighten the misery of Marianne in a final separation from Willoughby—in an immediate and irreconcilable rupture with him.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I enjoyed this scene, and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past and the anticipation of the future.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tenderhearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves and are not ashamed to own it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On a dark, misty, raw morning in January, I had left a hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart—a sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation—to seek the chilly harbourage of Lowood: that bourne so far away and unexplored.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)