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Embarrass

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A river or settlement in the United States: A river in Minnesota, a tributary of the Saint Louis River.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A river or settlement in the United States: A river in Minnesota, a tributary of the Saint Louis River.

  2. 2

    A river or settlement in the United States: A river in Wisconsin, a tributary of the Wolf River.

  3. 3

    A river or settlement in the United States: A township in Edgar County, Illinois.

  4. 4

    A river or settlement in the United States: A township and unincorporated community therein, in St. Louis County, Minnesota.

  5. 5

    A river or settlement in the United States: A village in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, located on the above river.

Etymology

Apparently from French embarrasser (“block, impede, obstruct”). The name was probably applied to the rivers first.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).