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Embarras
[am-braw]
noun
a river in E Illinois, flowing S and SE to the Wabash River. 185 miles (298 km) long.
Example Sentences
I canāt wait until we win again in 2020 to further embarras your profession # FakeNewsā
Youāll thin your apple trees; stock up on jam jars for fragrant bottled apricots, storage racks for surplus quinces, and freezer bags for your embarras de sweet corn richesse, because thereās nothing worse than a glut.
Court documents say Small hid his wifeās body in an attic for about two days before taking it to Coles County, dismembering it and tossing it into the Embarras and Vermillion rivers.
A hiker found his body less than a year later along the Embarras River near the town of Newton.
In the course of the 17th century and particularly in its final decades, that word, embarras, which until then had meant āembarrassmentā or āconfusion,ā acquired a new meaning: āThe encounter in a street of several things that block each otherās way.ā
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