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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 can鈥檛 wait until we win again in 2020 to further embarras your profession # FakeNews鈥
You鈥檒l 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 there鈥檚 nothing worse than a glut.
Court documents say Small hid his wife鈥檚 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 鈥渆mbarrassment鈥 or 鈥渃onfusion,鈥 acquired a new meaning: 鈥淭he encounter in a street of several things that block each other鈥檚 way.鈥
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