embarras, n.m., incumbrance, hindrance, impediment; embarrassment, difficulty, trouble, intricacy, fuss; perplexity, puzzle; (med.) derangement. Cet homme fait bien de l’—; that man makes a great fuss. Être dans l’—; to be in difficulties. Se mettre dans l’—; to get into trouble, into a scrape. Je suis dans l’—; I am at a loss. Ce n’est pas l’—; that’s easy enough; I see no objection. Avoir l’— du choix; to have too much to choose from. — de voitures; block of carriages.
embarrassant, -e, adj., embarrassing, puzzling, awkward; perplexing, encumbering, cumbersome, troublesome.
embarrassé, -e, part., embarrassed, entangled, perplexed, obstructed, constrained; out of countenance. Être —; to be at a loss.
embarrasser, v.a., to embarrass, to hamper, to encumber, to obstruct; to clog, to trouble, to confound, to puzzle; to come amiss to, to inconvenience, to incommode; to insnare. Être embarrassé de sa personne; not to know what to do with one’s self. Que cela ne vous embarrasse point; do not trouble yourself about that. Cette question l’a embarrassé; that question puzzled him. Il est embarrassé de répondre; he is at a loss for an answer. — une rue; to obstruct a street.
s’embarrasser, v.r., to entangle one’s self, to be embarrassed, entangled; to be solicitous about, to concern one’s self with; (med.) to be affected. Il ne s’embarrasse de rien; nothing ever troubles him. Sa langue s’embarrasse; his tongue begins to falter; his speech is impeded.
embasement, n.m., (arch.) continuous base; basement.
embastillement, n.m., imprisoning; surrounding with forts.
embastiller, v.a., to imprison; to surround with forts.
embatage, n.f., casing, tiring of wheels.
☉*embatailler, v.a., to embattle.