Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "verleë" is om iemand ongemaklik, selfbewus of skaam te laat voel. Dit kan ook beteken om probleme of komplikasies vir iemand te veroorsaak of om iets te verhinder of te belemmer.
As the queen settled back into her place at the table, Lyra found herself in an internal battle to push further, to embarrass the woman beyond repair.
Eirek was glad he already had a point, but he did not want to embarrass himself in front of the Guardian.
He swallowed hard and thought that he would rather face another monster than embarrass himself in front of Aline.
Harker had sent a message by her husband to say that she would not join us at present, as she thought it better that we should be free to discuss our movements without her presence to embarrass us.
Thankfully, before she could embarrass herself, the song ended, and Cam left her with Sadie.
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Athos and Raoul observed that he often tried to embarrass them by sudden attacks, or to catch them off their guard but neither the one nor the other gave him the least advantage.
I had held back only one detail of our journey, one that I left out so as not to embarrass a friend.
To do so would embarrass her, as she would feel that he did not believe her good enough to stay and participate in the festivities later that evening.
