(transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to abash. / (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.

A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation. / A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.

plural of embarrassment of riches

(idiomatic) An abundance or overabundance of something; too much of a good thing.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see inductive, embarrassment. / (physics, dated) The delay in signalling on an electric wire, produced by lateral induction.

Indicates that the speaker is embarrassed.

the uncomfortable sympathetic feeling experienced while watching someone else embarrass themselves

(Australia, colloquial) An expression of embarrassment, either for the speaker or for another individual or group.

plural of secondhand embarrassment

plural of vicarious embarrassment