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# embarrassment

«embarrassment» in Mova's school dictionary: **A feeling of being shy, silly or uncomfortable because of…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (embarrassment, embarrassments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A feeling of being shy, silly or uncomfortable because of something you did or something that happened in front of others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/#m1)

2) A person or thing that makes you feel this way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons about feelings, embarrassment is a normal feeling, for example tripping in front of the class or forgetting lines in a play; everyone feels it, and it passes. Laughing at your own small mistakes helps. Teasing others to cause embarrassment is unkind. Phrases: «red with embarrassment», «to my embarrassment», «cause embarrassment».

### examples

- My face went red with embarrassment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/#x1)
- To my embarrassment, I called my teacher «Mum». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/#x2)
- She hid her embarrassment by laughing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/#x3)
- Don't tease people to cause them embarrassment. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/#x4)
- Embarrassment is a feeling that soon goes away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/#x5)
- The burst ball was an embarrassment for the team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/#x6)
- By this time the princess had recovered from the first embarrassment of meeting, and proceeded to make her speech of welcome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/#x7)

### note

Spelling trap: double «r» and double «s»: em-ba-rr-a-ss-ment. Mostly uncountable (the feeling). Verb: embarrass; adjectives: embarrassed (how you feel), embarrassing (what causes it).

### In the corpora

- [Grown-ups have all the same feelings children have: anger, sadness, fear, loneliness, jealousy, embarrassment and pride.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/0/)
- [Laughing kindly with someone who tripped is fine; laughing at them makes their embarrassment worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/36-big-feelings-in-big-people/17/)
- [Some parents look embarrassed when a child asks about it; embarrassment is not anger, and asking was still right.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/59-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react/17/)
- ["Not our finest hour" is a humorous way of saying a bad failure or embarrassment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/33-failure-and-mistakes/5/)
- [When someone will act on your answer, a false «it's perfect» can lead them into embarrassment later.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/196-white-lies-and-kind-silence/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «embarrassment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embarrassment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.