"embarrassment" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

embarrassment sustantivo

embarrassment + verbo
Kolokacji: 4
embarrassment causes • embarrassment makes • embarrassment comes • embarrassment fades
verbo + embarrassment
Kolokacji: 18
cause embarrassment • avoid embarrassment • suffer embarrassment • feel embarrassment • cover one's embarrassment • ...
(1) cause, risk, bring, create
Kolokacji: 4
(2) avoid, prevent
Kolokacji: 2
1. cover one's embarrassment = przykrywać czyjś zażenowanie cover one's embarrassment
2. hide one's embarrassment = ukrywać się czyjś zażenowanie hide one's embarrassment
3. face embarrassment = zażenowanie twarzy face embarrassment
  • Visually-impaired men have been reported to unknowingly enter a women-only car and being warned by other passengers, facing serious embarrassment.
  • Eurostar faced fresh embarrassment after a commuter train from Paris was left stranded due to an electrical fault.
  • Together, Brown and Marbury faced embarrassment as the American team slunk home with just a bronze medal.
  • But if they do - and it says here they will - the Red Sox will face greater embarrassment than in the years before 2004.
  • Perhaps it was because he didn't want to face embarrassment.
  • The party faces not only mass defections and electoral embarrassment, but open ridicule as well.
  • In 2005, Kerlikowske faced embarrassment after having his duty handgun stolen from his locked car, which was parked on a public street.
  • In March, facing growing Congressional pressure and public embarrassment, the department moved to address both problems.
  • He faces embarrassment at his new address if Mr. Bush continues to lead him in the Tennessee polls.
  • The party faces embarrassment in a sting operation where journalists offer money to MP's to raise questions in Parliament.
4. flush with embarrassment = rumieniec z zażenowaniem flush with embarrassment
5. look in embarrassment = popatrz w zażenowaniu look in embarrassment
(5) express, minimize, show
Kolokacji: 3
adjetivo + embarrassment
Kolokacji: 47
political embarrassment • major embarrassment • public embarrassment • great embarrassment • far embarrassment • ...
preposición + embarrassment
Kolokacji: 10
with embarrassment • of embarrassment • from embarrassment • in embarrassment • to one's embarrassment • ...

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