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embarrasses

  • present tense form of embarrass (3rd person singular).

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I guess he is about 80, but the answer he gives embarrasses me.

From BBC Feb. 25, 2025

Nothing embarrasses Bella Baxter, the toddler-brained dervish of Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 7, 2024

It does not help and often confuses them, not to mention embarrasses them.

From Seattle Times Feb. 7, 2024

"The seizure of envelopes with money in the office of a person I chose hurts me... embarrasses me before the Portuguese and I have a duty to apologise," Costa said.

From Reuters Nov. 11, 2023

It is a meal he knows it has taken his mother over a day to prepare, and yet the amount of effort embarrasses him.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri