Embarrass vs Fluster - What's the difference?
embarrass | fluster |
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.
(dated) To make hot and rosy, as with drinking.
* Macaulay
(by extension) To confuse, befuddle, throw into panic by making overwrought with confusion.
To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused.
* South
As verbs the difference between embarrass and fluster
is that embarrass is to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash while fluster is to make hot and rosy, as with drinking.embarrass
English
Verb
(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.
Synonyms
* (humiliate) abash, discomfit, disconcert, humiliate, shame * See alsoDerived terms
* embarrassmentExternal links
* *fluster
English
Verb
- His habit of flustering himself daily with claret.
- He seemed to get flustered when speaking in front of too many people.
- The flustering , vainglorious Greeks.
