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Barricade vs Embarrass - What's the difference?

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Barricade is a related term of embarrass.


As verbs the difference between barricade and embarrass

is that barricade is while embarrass is to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash.

barricade

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A barrier constructed across a road, especially as a military defence
  • An obstacle, barrier, or bulwark.
  • * Derham
    • Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.
  • (figuratively, in the plural) A place of confrontation.

    • See also

    * (wikipedia "barricade") *

    Verb

  • to close or block a road etc., using a barricade
  • to keep someone in (or out), using a blockade, especially ships in a port

    • embarrass

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash
    • The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.
  • To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
    • Business is embarrassed'''; public affairs are '''embarrassed .
  • To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
    • A man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.

    Synonyms

    * (humiliate) abash, discomfit, disconcert, humiliate, shame * See also

    Derived terms

    * embarrassment

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