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be embarrassed Definition


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embarrass
verb embarrasses, embarrassed, embarrassing
    tr & intr
    1. To make someone feel, or become anxious, self-conscious or ashamed.
      Thesaurus: mortify, shame, humiliate, disconcert, abash, chagrin, fluster, distress, discomfit, discompose, discountenance.
    2. To confuse or perplex.
Derivative: embarrassed
adj
    Idiom: be embarrassed
      To be in financial difficulties.
    Etymology: 17c, meaning ‘to impede': from French embarrasser.



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