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
Rodolfo-Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
&Aelig;Lfwine-Anglo-Saxon
Honoria-Late Roman
AlAL English
MitziMIT-seeGerman
Nigella-English (Rare)