EMBARRASS
\ɛmbˈaɹəs], \ɛmbˈaɹəs], \ɛ_m_b_ˈa_ɹ_ə_s]\
Definitions of EMBARRASS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.
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Embarrassment.
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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.
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To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.
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Embarrassment.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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To encumber: to involve in difficulty, esp. in money-matters: to perplex: (lit.) to put a bar or difficulty in the way of.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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