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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Unembarrassed :: Unembarrassed (a.) Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed..
Corner :: Corner (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument..
Perplex :: Perplex (a.) To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety..
Embarrassment :: Embarrassment (n.) Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
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..
Red :: Red (v. t.) To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to red up a house..
Difficulty :: Difficulty (n.) Embarrassment of affairs, especially financial affairs; -- usually in the plural; as, to be in difficulties..
Puzzle :: Puzzle (v. t.) To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.
Set :: Set (v. t.) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud..
Clog :: Clog (v. t.) To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
Embarrass :: Embarrass (v. t.) Embarrassment.
Retrench :: Retrench (v. i.) To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed..
Cumber :: Cumber (v.) Trouble; embarrassment; distress.
Boggle :: Boggle (v. t.) To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
Unembarrassed :: Unembarrassed (a.) Free from pecuniary difficulties or encumbrances; as, he and his property are unembarrassed..
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..
Disembarrassing :: Disembarrassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disembarras.
Pudder :: Pudder (v. t.) To perplex; to embarrass; to confuse; to bother; as, to pudder a man..
Embarrassing :: Embarrassing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Embarras.
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. t.) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
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