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em·bar·rass·ment

(ĕm-băr′əs-mənt)

1. The act or an instance of embarrassing: His embarrassment of the guests ended the party.

2. The state of being embarrassed: My face turned red with embarrassment.

3. A source or cause of being embarrassed: Your display of rudeness was an embarrassment to me.

4. An overabundance: an embarrassment of choices at a buffet dinner; an embarrassment of riches.

5. Financial difficulty: fell into financial embarrassment.

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embarrassment

(ɪmˈbærəsmənt)

1. the state of being embarrassed

2. something that embarrasses

3. a financial predicament

4. an excessive amount; superfluity

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em•bar•rass•ment

(ɛmˈbær əs mənt)

n.

1. the state of being embarrassed; discomposure.

2. an act of embarrassing.

3. one that embarrasses.

4. an excess: an embarrassment of riches.

5. financial difficulty.

6. Med. impairment of functioning associated with disease: respiratory embarrassment.

[1670–80; < French]

syn: See shame.

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Noun	1.	embarrassment - the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public shame - a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt self-consciousness, uncomfortableness, uneasiness - embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you shamefacedness, sheepishness - feeling embarrassed about yourself chagrin, mortification, humiliation - strong feelings of embarrassment discombobulation, confusion - a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused abashment, bashfulness - feeling embarrassed due to modesty discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment - anxious embarrassment
	2.	embarrassment - the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments" emotional state, spirit - the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose"
	3.	embarrassment - some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals" trouble - an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble" disembarrassment - something that extricates you from embarrassment
	4.	embarrassment - extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" overplus, plethora, superfluity excessiveness, inordinateness, excess - immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits redundance, redundancy - the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"

embarrassment

noun

1. shame, distress, showing up (informal), humiliation, discomfort, unease, chagrin, self-consciousness, awkwardness, mortification, discomfiture, bashfulness, discomposure We apologise for any embarrassment this statement may have caused.

2. problem, difficulty, nuisance, source of trouble, thorn in your flesh The poverty figures were an embarrassment to the president.

3. predicament, problem, difficulty (informal), mess, jam (informal), plight, scrape (informal), pickle (informal) He is in a state of temporary financial embarrassment.

an embarrassment of riches

1. overabundance, excess, surplus, glut, profusion, surfeit, superabundance, superfluity The art gallery has an embarrassment of riches, with nowhere to put most of them.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

embarrassment

noun

1. Self-conscious distress:

abashment, chagrin, confusion, discomfiture, discomposure.

2. A condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate:

excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, extravagance, extravagancy, extravagantness, overabundance, plethora, superabundance, superfluity, superfluousness, surfeit.

Translations

إرْباك، إحْراج، إعاقَه

flovhedforlegenhed

Befangenheit Verlegenheit

αμηχανία

vergüenza apuro bochorno pena

embarras

òaî aî koma í vanda; vandræîi

imbarazzo

verlegenheid

flauhet

sramotatežavazadrega

utanma

困窘拮据

embarrassment

[ɪmˈbærəsmənt] N

1. (= state) → vergüenza f, pena f (LAm)
I am in a state of some embarrassment → mi situación es algo delicada
financial embarrassment → dificultades fpl económicas
to have an embarrassment of riches → tener mucho donde elegir

2. (= cause) → molestia f, vergüenza f
you are an embarrassment to us → eres un estorbo para nosotros

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

embarrassment

[ɪmˈbærəsmənt] n

(= feeling of shame) → gêne f, embarras m
embarrassment about sth → gêne vis-à-vis de qch
to his embarrassment → à son grand embarras

(= embarrassing event, situation) → embarras m (= embarrassing person) → honte f
to be an embarrassment to sb [event, situation] → mettre qn dans l'embarras; [person] → faire honte à qn

(= superfluity) → embarras m
an embarrassment of riches → l'embarras du choix

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

embarrassment

n → Verlegenheit f; (through generosity also) → Beschämung f; to cause embarrassment to somebody → jdn in Verlegenheit bringen, jdn verlegen machen; to be a constant source of embarrassment to somebody → jdn ständig in Verlegenheit bringen; to my great embarrassment she … → sie …, was mir sehr peinlich war; she’s an embarrassment to her family → sie blamiert die ganze Familie (inf); financial embarrassment → finanzielle Verlegenheit; an embarrassment of riches → ein verwirrender Reichtum

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

embarrassment

[ɪmˈbærəsmənt] n → imbarazzo
to be an embarrassment to sb → essere fonte d'imbarazzo per qn
financial embarrassments → difficoltà fpl economiche

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

embarrass

(imˈbӕrəs) verb

1. to cause to feel uneasy or self-conscious. She was embarrassed by his praise.

2. to involve in (especially financial) difficulties. embarrassed by debts.

emˈbarrassment noun

emˈbarrassed adjective

He was embarrassed when the teacher asked him to read his essay to the class.

emˈbarrassing adjective

an embarrassing question.

embarrassment

n vergüenza

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"From San Francisco," replied the Woman, with embarrassment, as great beads of perspiration spangled her spiritual brow.

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Wardle, without anger and without embarrassment. Nay, more.

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"Knowing what we know, it is not to be concealed that this circumstance threatens us with more embarrassment, and perhaps with more distress.

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She immediately answered, without any embarrassment, that he had been kind enough to call on her on Monday; but she believed he had already returned home, which I was very far from crediting.

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He made no reply; his complexion changed and all his embarrassment returned; but as if, on catching the eye of the young lady with whom he had been previously talking, he felt the necessity of instant exertion, he recovered himself again, and after saying, "Yes, I had the pleasure of receiving the information of your arrival in town, which you were so good as to send me," turned hastily away with a slight bow and joined his friend.

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Rose looked at him with an embarrassment that made him angry with Philip.

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At the same time, her quickness of apprehension warned her not to risk encouraging this persistent lover, by betraying any embarrassment on her side.

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FEELING the embarrassment of the moment most painfully on her side, Mrs.

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Yet every time he looked at her, and her eyes met his, he felt painful embarrassment, and would have looked away had not her eyes dropped so quickly.

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She tried to seem very busy with her prayer-book and her responses, and unconscious that she was out of place, but I said to myself, "She is not succeeding--there is a distressed tremulousness in her voice which betrays increasing embarrassment." Presently the Savior's name was mentioned, and in her flurry she lost her head completely, and rose and courtesied, instead of making a slight nod as everybody else did.

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Her uncle and aunt were all amazement; and the embarrassment of her manner as she spoke, joined to the circumstance itself, and many of the circumstances of the preceding day, opened to them a new idea on the business.

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I would not relieve her embarrassment, and negligently turned over the leaves of a book.