Usually means: Discomfort caused by social mishaps.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. embarrassment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. embarrassment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embarrassment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embarrassment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embarrassment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Embarrassment, embarrassment: Wordnik
  7. embarrassment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. embarrassment: Wiktionary
  9. embarrassment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. embarrassment: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. embarrassment: Dictionary.com
  12. embarrassment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Embarrassment (song), Embarrassment, The Embarrassment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Embarrassment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. embarrassment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. embarrassment: Rhymezone
  17. embarrassment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. embarrassment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. embarrassment: Free Dictionary
  20. embarrassment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. embarrassment: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. embarrassment: Legal dictionary

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  1. embarrassment: Encyclopedia

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  3. embarrassment: Idioms

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  1. Embarrassment: Urban Dictionary

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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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