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Adjective: embarrassing  em'barusing
  1. Hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment
    "embarrassing moments in the discussion"
    - awkward, sticky, unenviable
     
  2. Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation
    "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"
    - mortifying
Verb: embarrass  em'barus
  1. Cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
    - abash
     
  2. Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
    - obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymie, stymy

See also: difficult, embarrassingly, embarrassment, hard, unpleasant

Type of: discomfit, discompose, disconcert, forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, untune, upset

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