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emancipate
v. release, set free, liberate, enfranchise, manumit, loose,
let loose, let go, set free, disenthral, unfetter, unchain,
unshackle; deliver: Britain emancipated the slaves almost 50
years before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
embargo n. 1 restraint, block, blockage, bar, ban, stoppage, cessation,
proscription, prohibition, interdiction, check, restriction,
barrier; hindrance, impediment: The government placed an
embargo on the export of oil.
--v. 2 restrain, block, bar, ban, stop, cease, proscribe,
prohibit, interdict, check, restrict, hold back, prevent;
hinder, impede, retard, hold up: They may embargo oil shipments
in case of war.
embark v. 1 board, go aboard; entrain; emplane or enplane: We
embarked and the ship sailed. 2 Often, embark on. commence,
begin, enter (upon), initiate, launch, start, go into, set
about, take up or on, engage in, assume, tackle: He will embark
on the new enterprise next month.
embarrass v. disconcert, discomfit, chagrin, abash, shame, mortify,
humble, humiliate, discountenance, discompose, fluster, upset,
distress, disgrace, Colloq show up: He embarrassed his
colleagues by his bad manners.
embarrassed
adj. 1 ashamed, shamefaced, blushing, disconcerted,
discomfited, chagrined, abashed, shamed, mortified, humiliated,
discountenanced, discomposed, flustered, distressed, red-faced,
uncomfortable, self-conscious, sheepish, red in the face;
humbled, disgraced: She was extremely embarrassed by all the
attention. 2 in debt, in the red, straitened, insolvent, Colloq
short, hard up, broke, Brit skint: I'm financially embarrassed
now but I'll pay you later.
embarrassing
adj. awkward, humiliating, mortifying, shaming, shameful,
uncomfortable, discomfiting, disconcerting, touchy, distressing,
worrying: I had a very embarrassing moment when I forgot the
client's name.