Embarrassing

Definition

embarrass /Çm'bærǝs/ v (esp passive) (က) ရွက္ကိုးရွက္ကန္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ကသိကေအာက္ျဖစ္သည္။ I was embarrassed by his comments about my clothes. ❍ Are you trying to embarrass me? (ခ) အခက္ႀကံဳသည္။ အခက္ေတြ႕သည္။ embarrassed by lack of money ❍ be financially embarrassed ❍ a speech designed to embarrass the government. ❏ embarrassed adj ~ (about/at sth) စိတ္ကသိကေအာက္။ ရွက္တက္တက္။ He felt slightly embarrassed at being the centre of attention. ❍ An embarrassed Clarissa nervously sipped her wine. ❍ There was an embarrassed silence. ❏ embarrassing adj ကသိကေအာက္ျဖစ္ေစေသာ။ အခက္ ေတြ႕ေစေသာ။ အက်ပ္႐ိုက္ေစေသာ။ an embarrassing incident/ question/mistake ❍ The latest rise in unemployment has proved extremely embarrassing to the government. embarrassingly adv ❏ embarrassment n (က) [U] ကသိကေအာက္ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ ရွက္ကိုးရွက္ကန္းျဖစ္ျခင္း။ စိတ္မလံုျခင္း။ He suffered a good deal of embarrassment in his youth. ❍ She was overcome with embarrassment at the idea. ❍ Much to the embarrassment of ministers, the proposals were leaked to the press. (ခ) [C] အက်ပ္အတည္း။ ျပႆနာေကာင္။ financial embarrassments ❍ He's an embarrassment to his family.

Examples

1. It embarrassed me to have to give my opinion in public.
2. The protest may have been timed to embarrass the President.