Sentence examples for To embarrass from inspiring English sources

Suggestions(5)

To shame

To bother

To inhibit

To obstruct

To dampen

Dictionary

To embarrass

verb

To humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash

The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.

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"I'm going to embarrass you!

The New York Times

We don't want to embarrass anyone".

The New York Times

"You don't want to embarrass yourself.

The New York Times - Sports

Was this American trying to embarrass him?

The New Yorker

Their shared blood seems to embarrass them.

The New Yorker

What do we do to embarrass them?

The New York Times

You're not going to embarrass them.

The New York Times

I'm going to embarrass myself.

Harvard Business Review

They don't want to embarrass themselves".

The New York Times

He wasn't trying to embarrass anybody".

The New York Times - Sports

I don't mean to embarrass you.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

More suggestions(15)

To hinder

To humiliate

To impede

To degrade

To frustrate

To wound

To impair

To disrupt

To confuse

To disturb

To annoy

To hamper

To harm

To affect

To bore

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