Embarrass is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EMBARRASS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to discomfit
• cause (someone) to feel awkward, self-conscious, or ashamed
• be caused financial difficulties
• hamper or impede (a person or action)
• make difficult or intricate; complicate
• cause to feel self-conscious or ashamed
• 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.
• To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.
• To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to incumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands; -- said of a person or his affairs; as, a man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.
• Embarrassment.
• cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to place in doubt, perplexity, or difficulties; to involve in financial difficulties; to cause to experience a state of self-conscious distress

Words related to EMBARRASS

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How to use EMBARRASS in a sentence

• Let us not embarrass his majesty by an unusual form of address, at a time when he his negotiating alliances, and forming plans for the rescue of the empire.
• You seem to me, if your meanings were always just, to have taken great pains to embarrass them.
• House and his associates are making most strenuous efforts to interfere and embarrass me by playing on the ignorance of the public and the natural timidity of capitalists.
• In fact, by doing that, you might embarrass them very much.
• One circumstance, however, tended greatly to embarrass the Cardinal-minister.
• Hence, too, have sprung up, in the name of grammar, many unprofitable discussions, and whimsical systems of teaching, calculated rather to embarrass than to inform the student.
• Incidents of another sort occurred to still further embarrass the position for Anne de Beaujeu.
• The North Carolina sheriff merely wished to embarrass his Franklin rival, and he succeeded admirably.
• We can not embarrass or cut off the trade of France without at the same time in some degree embarrassing or cutting off our own trade.
• Only a few points of information have come to light, and they serve to embarrass rather than aid the solution.
• Sooner than embarrass those who were conducting the fight, the individual English man and woman in silence suffered the most cruel anxiety of mind.
• But they never missed an opportunity to embarrass those who were engaged in such work, and by so doing add to the burden that was already too heavy.
• Your private circumstances, if known to be embarrassed, are known at the same time not to embarrass you.
• The English contend that the Acadians did everything in their power to assist the French and embarrass the English.
• The name and circumstance of Phidias, however convenient for history, embarrass when we come to the highest criticism.
• Fortunately, the baby did not live to embarrass her.
• Occasionally, the resemblance of different mountains, one to another, would serve to embarrass him.
• Newman than to yourself, which will be a perfectly worthy conclusion of all this embarrass.
• The transfer of these debts to Europe will excessively embarrass, and perhaps totally prevent the borrowing any money in Europe, till these shall be paid off.
• Your instructions can never embarrass you a second time, whereas an acquiescence under them will re-produce greater difficulties every day, and without end.
• Jameson the position in which the Johannesburg people were placed, and their desire that he should not embarrass them by any precipitate action.
• In order not to embarrass his friends he does not even look at the house, but remains sitting there gazing into vacancy, his back or side turned toward the homestead.
• Even those who took not the field against him, were able to embarrass and confound his counsels.
• I fancy that Santa Marinan justice works mainly by rule of thumb, and that the courts do not embarrass themselves much with precedents.
• Lincoln worth while to make a response to an assault which, if left unanswered, must seriously embarrass the administration.
• But he did not want to do anything to embarrass the show lady.
• A single man of this stamp is enough to chill and embarrass a whole company.
• Let it go at Madame, since it would embarrass you to change.

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