embarrass into doing



embarrass someone into doing something

to shame someone into doing something. They tried to embarrass me into doing it, but I resisted. Juan tried to embarrass Fred into going home early.
See also: embarrass

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Xabiersha-bee-ERBasque, Galician
Andrea (1)ahn-DRE-ahItalian
Hipolithee-PAW-leetPolish
Harley['hɑ:li]
Rajesh-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Nepali
TİMuÇİN-Turkish