DEFINITION
adjective
feeling or showing embarrassment: I felt quite embarrassed whenever I talked to her | an embarrassed silence.
• having or showing financial difficulties.
DERIVATIVES
embarrassedly adverb
ORIGIN early 17th cent. (in sense 2): from French embarrasser, from Spanish embarazar, probably from Portuguese embaraçar (from baraço ‘halter’).
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