Definition of embarrass

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Embarrass (v. t.) To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator..

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Embarrass :: Embarrass (v. t.) Embarrassment.
Ease :: Ease (n.) Freedom from constraint, formality, difficulty, embarrassment, etc.; facility; liberty; naturalness; -- said of manner, style, etc.; as, ease of style, of behavior, of address..
Disembarrass :: Disembarrass (v. t.) To free from embarrassment, or perplexity; to clear; to extricate..
Pudder :: Pudder (v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man..
Unembarrassed :: Unembarrassed (a.) Free from perplexing connection; as, the question comes into court unembarrassed with irrelevant matter..
Embarrassment :: Embarrassment (n.) A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness..
Inconvenience :: Inconvenience (n.) That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty..
Disentangle :: Disentangle (v. t.) To extricate from complication and perplexity; disengage from embarrassing connection or intermixture; to disembroil; to set free; to separate.
Unembarrassed :: Unembarrassed (a.) Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed..
Clog :: Clog (v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
Bother :: Bother (n.) One who, or that which, bothers; state of perplexity or annoyance; embarrassment; worry; disturbance; petty trouble; as, to be in a bother..
Perplex :: Perplex (a.) To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety..
Hinder :: Hinder (a.) To prevent or embarrass; to debar; to shut out.
Cumber :: Cumber (v. t.) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct or occupy uselessly; to embarrass; to trouble..
Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..
Disembarrassment :: Disembarrassment (n.) Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
Stand :: Stand (v. i.) A state of perplexity or embarrassment; as, to be at a stand what to do..
Hum :: Hum (v. i.) To make an inarticulate sound, like h'm, through the nose in the process of speaking, from embarrassment or a affectation; to hem..
Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty..
Derange :: Derange (v. t.) To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation..
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