embarrassment

embarrassment
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  • Embarrassment — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda «Embarrassment» Canción de Madness LP Absolutely Publicación 1980 …   Wikipedia Español

  • Embarrassment — Em*bar rass*ment, n. [F. embarrassement.] 1. 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. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • embarrassment — 1670s, “impeded, obstructed, entangled” (of affairs, etc.), from EMBARRASS (Cf. embarrass) + MENT (Cf. ment), or from Fr. embarrassement, from embarrasser. As a mental state of unease, from 1774. Meaning thing which embarrasses is from 1729.… …   Etymology dictionary

  • embarrassment — I noun abashment, awkward situation, awkwardness, bafflement, chagrin, confusion, constraint, discomfiture, discomfort, discomposure, disturbance, fluster, humiliation, implicatio, mortification, perturbation, pudency, scrupulus, self… …   Law dictionary

  • embarrassment — [n] humiliation, shame awkwardness, awkward situation, bashfulness, bind, boo boo*, chagrin, clumsiness, complexity, confusion, destitution, difficulty, dilemma, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, distress, egg on face*, faux pas, fix,… …   New thesaurus

  • Embarrassment — For other uses, see Embarrassment (disambiguation). Embarrassment is an emotional state of intense discomfort with oneself, experienced upon having a socially unacceptable act or condition witnessed by or revealed to others. Usually some amount… …   Wikipedia

  • embarrassment — noun 1 feeling of being embarrassed ADJECTIVE ▪ acute, considerable, great ▪ total, utter ▪ slight ▪ She smiled to hide her slight embarr …   Collocations dictionary

  • embarrassment — n. 1) to cause embarrassment 2) to feel embarrassment 3) embarrassment about, at, over (we felt embarrassment about the disclosure) 4) an embarrassment to (his outburst was an embarrassment to his family) 5) to smb. s embarrassment (to my… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • embarrassment — em|bar|rass|ment [ımˈbærəsmənt] n 1.) [U] the feeling you have when you are embarrassed embarrassment at ▪ She suffered extreme embarrassment at not knowing how to read. ▪ He could not hide his embarrassment at his children s rudeness. to sb s… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • embarrassment — [[t]ɪmbæ̱rəsmənt[/t]] embarrassments 1) N VAR: oft N prep Embarrassment is the feeling you have when you are embarrassed. It is a source of embarrassment to Londoners that the standard of pubs is so low... I think I would have died of… …   English dictionary

  • embarrassment */ — UK [ɪmˈbærəsmənt] / US [ɪmˈberəsmənt] noun Word forms embarrassment : singular embarrassment plural embarrassments 1) a) [uncountable] a feeling of being nervous or ashamed because of what people know or think about you I felt my face burning… …   English dictionary


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