Did you mean Embarrass?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cause to feel self-conscious or ill at ease; disconcert: Meeting adults embarrassed the shy child.
- v. To involve in or hamper with financial difficulties.
- v. To hinder with obstacles or difficulties; impede.
- v. To complicate.
- v. To interfere with (a bodily function) or impede the function of (a body part).
Wiktionary
- v. to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash
Etymologies
- 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).
Examples
“And when I use the word embarrass, I use that because it is very politically controversial, very, especially now with this NSA story out there.”
“Walk naked until Brick has serviced you, or does the idea embarrass you?”
Sharpe's Fortress
“O'Keefe was arrested while trying to implement one of his schemes inside the office of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu, and when his attempt to "embarrass" a CNN reporter with a sexually suggestive scenario was exposed, Breitbart tried to distance himself.”
The Washington Post: Why ABC's Breitbart invite is a big deal
“This was supposedly to keep the debate free from attempts to "embarrass" people.”
“A cable dated May 5, 2009 Reference ID 09MADRID440 describes further meetings between US officials and the prosecutor who promises to "embarrass" the Judge into dropping the case.”
“Let's not create a situation where people are afraid to express themselves online because someday someone might use their words or image to "embarrass" them or their boss.”
Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, Embarrassed Online? [UPDATED]
“Micah Sifry hopes that we're not "creat [ing] a situation where people are afraid to express themselves online because someday someone might use their words or image to 'embarrass' them or their boss.”
“It's not that Hugh Laurie isn't a good actor, it's that all the squeeing slashfic writing fans out there who don't know anything about what Laurie's done in the past kind of embarrass me.”
“If you Google "embarrass," the first thing that comes up is Embarrass, Minnesota.”
“If you don't want to "embarrass" them with a post on their myspace, then visit their myspace and e-mail them about something they said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘embarrass’.
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Loanwords
Since English is littered with loanwords, everything could conceivably end up here. But there is a distinct feeling associated with these.. maybe they're young additions to the English language; I ...
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
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Capitonyms, capitonyms
Words that change meaning when capitalized
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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