Usually means: Situations causing discomfort and shame.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. embarrassments: Merriam-Webster
  2. embarrassments: Collins English Dictionary
  3. embarrassments: Vocabulary.com
  4. Embarrassments, embarrassments: Wordnik
  5. embarrassments: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. embarrassments: Wiktionary
  7. embarrassments: Dictionary.com
  8. embarrassments: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embarrassments: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embarrassments: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See embarrassment as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (embarrassment)

noun:  A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
noun:  A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
noun:  A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance.
noun:  A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty
noun:  (medicine) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
noun:  (dated) Difficulty in financial matters; poverty.
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