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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.
- Embarrass - v. t. - To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.
- Embarrass - v. t. - 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.
- Embarrass - v. t. - Embarrassment.
- Embarrassed - imp. & p. p. - of Embarrass
- Embarrassing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Embarrass
- 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.
- Embarrassment - n. - Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
- 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.
- 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.
- Shackle - v. t. - Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
- Pose - v. t. - To question with a view to puzzling; to embarrass by questioning or scrutiny; to bring to a stand.
- Boggle - v. t. - To embarrass with difficulties; to make a bungle or botch of.
- 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.