embarrass
IPA: ɪmbˈɛrʌs
verb
- (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.
- (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
- (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
- (transitive, dated) To perplex mentally; confuse, disconcert; catch off guard.
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Examples of "embarrass" in Sentences
- Fix the spelling of embarrassing.
- The result was embarrassed silence.
- They embarrassed the little children.
- His pantheism embarrassed the church.
- It would embarrass and mortify the children.
- Amina was briefly the embarrassed by the schoolgirl.
- An embarrassment for the Project, of the highest order.
- It is an attempt to embarrass the person in the picture.
- It's an embarrassment in the writing and paucity of refs.
- Mahdi's frostbite was an embarrassment to the expedition.
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