The meaning of Embittering

verb

Make (someone) feel isolated or estranged.

Usage examples:

An urban environment which would alienate its inhabitants

verb

To cause a person or people to stop supporting someone or to stop feeling welcome

Usage examples:

All these changes to the newspaper have alienated its old readers., the alienation of young adults …

noun

A strong feeling of annoyance, displeasure, or hostility.

Usage examples:

The colonel's anger at his daughter's disobedience

verb

Fill (someone) with anger; provoke anger in.

Usage examples:

She was angered by his terse answer

noun

The feeling people get when something unfair, painful, or bad happens

Usage examples:

You need to control your anger., he yelled at them in anger., his constant complaining only angered…

verb

Cause (someone) to become hostile.

Usage examples:

The aim was to antagonize visiting supporters

verb

To anger someone enough to dislike and oppose you

Usage examples:

The company doesn’t want to antagonize one of its biggest oil suppliers.

verb

Make (someone) dissatisfied, especially with people in authority or a system of control; alienate.

Usage examples:

What these ads do is disaffect the voting public

verb

Cause (someone) to lose confidence or enthusiasm.

Usage examples:

Tedious regulations could discourage investors

verb

To cause someone to feel less confident or less hopeful

Usage examples:

She sometimes got discouraged about her social life, which was going nowhere, she felt., we tried t…

noun

Disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed it to be.

Usage examples:

The old enthusiasm for the government evaporated into a more cynical disillusion

verb

Cause (someone) to realize that a belief they hold is false.

Usage examples:

If they think we have a magic formula to solve the problem, don't disillusion them

verb

To disappoint someone by making the person realize the unpleasant truth about something or someone thought to be good

Usage examples:

He’s become disillusioned with his job and the company., he died a disillusioned man.

verb

Fail to satisfy (someone).

Usage examples:

What is it about these words that dissatisfies you?

verb

Put poison on or into; make poisonous.

Usage examples:

The blades were envenomed with a fatal poison for which there is no antidote

verb

Prevent (a plan or attempted action) from progressing, succeeding, or being fulfilled.

Usage examples:

The rescue attempt was frustrated by bad weather

adjective

Frustrated.

Hinder or prevent, as an effort, plan, or desire

noun

A medical condition with yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes, arising from excess of the pigment bilirubin and typically caused by obstruction of the bile duct, by liver disease, or by excessive breakdown of red blood cells.

Usage examples:

In prehepatic jaundice, excess unconjugated bilirubin is produced faster than the liver is able to …

noun

A disease of the blood that causes the skin and the white part of the eyes to turn yellow

noun

A serious disease in which substances not usually in the blood cause your skin and the white part of your eyes to turn yellow

noun

A substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.

Usage examples:

He killed himself with poison

verb

Administer poison to (a person or animal), either deliberately or accidentally.

Usage examples:

Someone had tried to poison me

noun

A substance that causes illness or death if swallowed, absorbed, or breathed into the body

Usage examples:

[ u ] poison gas, [ c ] some cleaning products are poisons., [ u ] he sprayed the weeds with poison…

verb

(of a comment or fact) cause continuing annoyance or resentment.

Usage examples:

The casual manner of his dismissal still rankles

verb

To cause annoyance or anger that lasts a long time

Usage examples:

[ i ] the way she left him still rankles.

adjective

Having an acid taste like lemon or vinegar.

Usage examples:

She sampled the wine and found it was sour

noun

A drink made by mixing a spirit with lemon or lime juice.

Usage examples:

A rum sour

verb

Make or become sour.

Usage examples:

Water soured with tamarind

verb

Make (someone) feel annoyed, frustrated, or worried, especially with trivial matters.

Usage examples:

The memory of the conversation still vexed him

adjective

Angry; annoyed.

Usage examples:

I ain't vex with you

verb

To cause someone to feel annoyance or trouble

Usage examples:

The question that vexes ben the most is, "why me?", rising gas prices are a vexing problem.