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What is the verb for embarrass?

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embarrass
  1. (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash
  2. (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
  3. (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Anyhow, I don't embarrass you nearly as much as you embarrass me with your drinking and gambling away all our money.”
      “You just thought it would be rather an amusing game to stay here and embarrass me with your questions.”
      “By so doing, you only get an additional name in your moral vocabulary, with a crowd of figurative events which can do nothing else than embarrass your progress.”
embarrassed
embarrassing
embarrasses
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of embarrass
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In fact, the sages asserted that someone who embarrasses another person in public is akin to a murderer.”
      “Max humiliates and embarrasses me all the time, so I don't know, this made me happy.”
      “So even when the gray haired man I sometimes call my father in public embarrasses me a lot, I love him all the same.”
embarass
  1. Misspelling of embarrass.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I hope that there will be enough pressure put on the people across the way to embarass them into action.”
      “To speak a language well, you must strive for rapid communication and be willing to embarass yourself.”
      “It is thought that concern to preserve the threatened position of the domestic leader may have been behind Congressional promotion of the Buy America requirement, which can hardly have falled to embarass the Administration.”
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