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
Antonios-Greek
GreshamGRESH-əmEnglish (Rare)
Worknesh-Eastern African, Amharic
Yesha'yahu-Biblical Hebrew
Ethelbert-English
BernhardBERN-hahrt (German)German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Ancient Germanic