1752. Johnson, in John Taylor, Serm. (1789), 224. The fear of death has always been considered as the … embitterer of the cup of joy.
1827. Hone, Every-day Bk., II. 12. Sitting to drink is … the embitterer of their enjoyments.
1884. Annie S. Swan, Dorothea Kirke, xiv. (1889), 127. That old man is nothing but a cumberer of the ground, an embitterer of the lives of others.
