1. (v. t.) To hinder from freedom of thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action; to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator.

2. (v. t.) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct; as, business is embarrassed; public affairs are embarrassed.

3. (v. t.) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber 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.

4. (v. t.) Embarrassment.

Christmas Day.
... as he is in himself; that he is a Spirit, not to be seen, not to be conceived of
as in any one place, or in any one form; what do we but embarrass our child's ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/arnold/the christian life/lecture xxii christmas day.htm

It is a Little Remarkable That, While Some Classes of Christians ...
... of the station, and of the momentous consequences depending on the influence he
may there exert, has a tendency to oppress and embarrass the conscientious man ...
/.../ware/hints on extemporaneous preaching/chapter i it is a.htm

Extracts No. viii.
... Neither do I perceive how this can embarrass your argument, as you have proposed
to consider them 'true, disjunctively,' as well as conjunctively. ...
/.../ballou/a series of letters in defence of divine revelation/extracts no viii.htm

1 John iii. 18-Sep
... God, he has begun not to have sins. If it were so, there would be no question
to embarrass us. For we should say, We have been sinners ...
/.../ten homilies on the epistle of john to the parthians/homily v 1 john iii.htm

Sunday-School Hymns.
... English of the lines, and the profusion of adoring epithets in the ancient poem
(no less than twenty-one different titles of Christ) would embarrass a modern ...
/.../brown/the story of the hymns and tunes/chapter viii sunday-school hymns.htm

Since These Things are So, Because it were Too Long to Treat ...
... But for that we are men and among men do live, and I confess that I am not yet in
the number of them whom compensative sins embarrass not, it oft befalleth me ...
/.../augustine/against lying/section 35 since these things.htm

Works which Hallow the Sabbath
... commandment and men's exposition of it. He does not embarrass himself with two
controversies at once. At fit times He disputed Rabbinical ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/works which hallow the sabbath.htm

The Leaven of the Pharisees
... Moreover the demand would specially embarrass Jesus, because He alone was not
accustomed to invoke heaven: His miracles were wrought by the exertion of His own ...
/.../chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 8 11-21 the leaven of.htm

Account of Proceedings in the Peninsula
... and distinctness I shall at once enter upon my subject, abstaining from reflections
of every kind, which in most cases only tend to embarrass, being anxious to ...
/.../borrow/letters of george borrow/account of proceedings in the.htm

Order in which the Parables were Delivered. --Their Perfection. ...
... which were merely intended to complete it; for this, by diverting the mind from
the one truth to a variety of particulars, can only embarrass instead of ...
/.../section 69 order in which.htm

Embarrass (2 Occurrences)
... thought, speech, or action by something which impedes or confuses mental action;
to perplex; to discompose; to disconcert; as, laughter may embarrass an orator ...
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Cumber (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; to be burdensome
or oppressive to; to hinder or embarrass in attaining an object, to obstruct ...
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Noadiah (2 Occurrences)
... Being bribed by them, she tried to stir up discontent among the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and so to embarrass Nehemiah in his great work of rebuilding the ...
/n/noadiah.htm - 8k

Load (22 Occurrences)
... or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo,
as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap ...
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Gravel (3 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. 6. (vt) To hurt or lame
(a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot. Int. ...
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Wade (2 Occurrences)
... 4. (vi) Hence, to move with difficulty or labor; to proceed /lowly among objects
or circumstances that constantly hinder or embarrass; as, to wade through a ...
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Involve (2 Occurrences)
... 6. (vt) To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass; as, to involve a person in debt
or misery. 7. (vt) To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb. ...
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Intrigue (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (vi) To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour. 3. (vt) To fill
with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass. ...
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Embarrassed (5 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Embarrass. Multi-Version Concordance
Embarrassed (5 Occurrences). 2 Corinthians 7:14 For ...
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Embarking (3 Occurrences)

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Embarrass (2 Occurrences)

Ruth 2:15 When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her.
(See NIV)

Joel 2:7 As mighty ones they run, As men of war they go up a wall, And each in his own ways they do go, And they embarrass not their paths.
(YLT)

Embarrass

Cumber (1 Occurrence)

Noadiah (2 Occurrences)

Load (22 Occurrences)

Gravel (3 Occurrences)

Wade (2 Occurrences)

Involve (2 Occurrences)

Intrigue (3 Occurrences)

Embarrassed (5 Occurrences)

Embarking (3 Occurrences)

Push (23 Occurrences)

Plunge (4 Occurrences)

Set (6715 Occurrences)

Straiten (4 Occurrences)

Hamper (1 Occurrence)

Hinder (47 Occurrences)

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