‘owning’. You embarrass a person. You own them. To reveal a person’s faults or lies is ‘own’. Embarrassment is a noun. The word ‘embarrass’ is a verb that derives from the Spanish ‘embarazar’. In its earlier form the word meant ‘hinder’, ‘hamper’, or prevent a person from moving forward.
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