Bewilder vs Embarrass - What's the difference?
bewilder | embarrass | Synonyms |
(label) To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
(label) To disorientate someone.
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to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash
To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
Bewilder is a synonym of embarrass.
As verbs the difference between bewilder and embarrass
is that bewilder is (label) to confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things while embarrass is to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash.bewilder
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(en verb)Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* bewilderedly * bewilderedness * bewilderer * bewildermentExternal links
* *embarrass
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(es)- The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.
- Business is embarrassed'''; public affairs are '''embarrassed .
- A man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.