embarrass

Definition

Examples

His loud comments in the meeting managed to embarrass the whole team.

Word Family

Synonyms

• disconcertcause to feel embarrassment
• shamea painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt

Collocations

• Easy embarrass someone
  to embarrass someone, meaning to cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
• Medium embarrass the company
  to embarrass the company, meaning to cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
• Hard financially embarrass
  describing financially embarrass (from a financial point of view)
• Very Hard acutely embarrass the administration
  describing acutely embarrass the administration (in an acute manner)