embarrass Definition

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.