Usually means: Feeling awkward due to mistakes.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. embarrass: Merriam-Webster
  2. embarrass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embarrass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embarrass: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embarrass: Vocabulary.com
  6. Embarrass, embarrass: Wordnik
  7. embarrass: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. embarrass: Wiktionary
  9. embarrass: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. embarrass: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. embarrass: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. embarrass: Dictionary.com
  13. embarrass: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. embarrass: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Embarrass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Embarrass: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. embarrass: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. embarrass: Rhymezone
  19. embarrass: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. embarrass: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. embarrass: FreeDictionary.org
  22. embarrass: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. embarrass: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. embarrass: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. embarrass: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embarrass: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embarrass: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. embarrass: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. embarrass: Medical dictionary

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  1. embarrass: Idioms

(Note: See embarrassable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash.
verb:  (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
verb:  (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
verb:  (transitive, formal) To perplex mentally; confuse, disconcert; catch off guard.
noun:  A river or settlement in the United States:
noun:  A river in Minnesota, a tributary of the Saint Louis River.
noun:  A river in Wisconsin, a tributary of the Wolf River.
noun:  A township in Edgar County, Illinois.
noun:  A township and unincorporated community therein, in St. Louis County, Minnesota.
noun:  A village in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, located on the above river.

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