Usually means: Making someone feel bitter, resentful.
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  1. embittering: Merriam-Webster
  2. embittering: Collins English Dictionary
  3. embittering: Vocabulary.com
  4. embittering: Wordnik
  5. embittering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. embittering: Wiktionary
  7. embittering: Dictionary.com
  8. embittering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. embittering: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. embittering: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. embittering: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Causing one to feel embittered.
▸ noun:  embitterment

Similar:
acerbate, envenom, indignance, disparaging, bad taste in one's mouth, belittling, resentment, begrimer, unblessing, begrudgement, more...

Opposite:
sweetening, enlivening, refreshing, uplifting

Types:
resentment, jealousy, envy, bitterness, grudge, more...

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Similar:
acerbate, envenom, indignance, disparaging, bad taste in one's mouth, belittling, resentment, begrimer, unblessing, begrudgement, more...

Opposite:
sweetening, enlivening, refreshing, uplifting

Types:
resentment, jealousy, envy, bitterness, grudge, more...



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