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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cause to feel self-conscious or ill at ease; disconcert: Meeting adults embarrassed the shy child.
  2. v. To involve in or hamper with financial difficulties.
  3. v. To hinder with obstacles or difficulties; impede.
  4. v. To complicate.
  5. v. To interfere with (a bodily function) or impede the function of (a body part).

Wiktionary

  1. v. to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash

Etymologies

  1. French embarrasser, to encumber, hamper, from Spanish embarazar, from Italian imbarazzare, from imbarazzo, obstacle, obstruction, from imbarrare, to block, bar : in-, in (from Latin; see en-1) + barra, bar (from Vulgar Latin *barra).

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  • suunflowerss I love the way it spells "bare ass". When my ass is bare I am embarrassed. Sep 14, 2007

  • adm i have such trouble spelling it. only in the last three years have i been able to get it right most of the time. same with occasionally. Dec 5, 2006

‘embarrass’ has been looked up 1739 times, loved by 1 person, added to 8 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 13.