1 [U] shy, awkward or guilty feelings; a feeling of being embarrassed:
I nearly died of embarrassment when he said that. * I'm glad you offered-it saved me the embarrassment of having to ask. * Much to her embarrassment she realized that everybody had been listening to her singing.
2 [C] ~ (to / for sb) a situation which causes problems for sb:
Her resignation will be a severe embarrassment to the party.
3 [C] ~ (to sb) a person who causes problems for another person or other people and makes them feel embarrassed:
Poor Lucy! He's such an embarrassment to her.
IDIOMS
an embarrassment of riches so many good things that it is difficult to choose just one:
Stratford has an embarrassment of riches, really, what with three theatres and lovely countryside, too.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for embarrassment is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is embarrassment a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, embarrassment is tagged as noun.
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