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Definition of Embarrasses

1. embarrass [v] - See also: embarrass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embarrasses

Literary usage of Embarrasses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1822)
"... for performance of со- Simple mart- venants, frequently occasions difficulty in the pleadings in as- signing the breach, and embarrasses the mortgagee. ..."

2. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"manner unauthorized; and in place of yielding any aid to the explication of that great event, embarrasses it with artificial difficulties, and renders it ..."

3. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical by Benjamin Franklin (1882)
"... calls upon the House to provide for the Security of £•• back Inhabitants. A Remark thereon. He embarrasses th*r- -* Petitions from certain Persons ..."

4. A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan (1915)
"I put a few words in capitals ; and I write rq™ for the sign of the square root, which embarrasses small type: "This establishes the following infallible ..."

5. The Manuscripts of the Marquess Townshend by John Villiers Stuart Townshend Townshend, William Oxenham Hewlett, Henry Barr Tomkins (1887)
"... which so embarrasses me that the lot of severity will fall on the least EABI OP _ time to propose certain things of great consequence ..."

6. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1859)
"The chopping and changing of regulations on this head perplexes the public, embarrasses tutors, and the heads of colleges and schools, and seriously ..."

7. A System of surgery: theoretical and practical v.5 by Timothy Holmes (1870)
"This oedema often embarrasses the repair of fractures, more especially when the breakage is near a medullary foramen and ..."

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