different between implicate vs embarrass

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin implicatus < implico (“entangle, involve”), from plico (“fold”). Doublet of imply and employ.

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /??mpl?ke?t/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /??mpl?k?t/

Verb

implicate (third-person singular simple present implicates, present participle implicating, simple past and past participle implicated)

1. (transitive, with “in”) To show to be connected or involved in an unfavorable or criminal way.

2. To imply, to have as a necessary consequence or accompaniment.

3. (pragmatics) To imply without entailing; to have as an implicature.
4. (archaic) To fold or twist together, intertwine, interlace, entangle, entwine.

Related terms

• implication
• implicative
• implicature
• implicit
• implicitness
• imply

Translations

Noun

implicate (plural implicates)

1. (philosophy) The thing implied.

See also

• (connect with a crime): grass, inform, squeal

Italian

Verb

implicate

1. second-person plural present of implicare
2. second-person plural imperative of implicare
3. feminine plural past participle of implicare

Latin

Participle

implic?te

1. vocative masculine singular of implic?tus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French embarrasser (“to block, to obstruct”), from Spanish embarazar, from Portuguese embaraçar, from em- (“in”) (from Latin im-) + baraço (“noose, rope”), the latter ultimately being from Akkadian ???? (KEŠDA /rak?su/, “to tie”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?bæ.??s/
• (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /?m?b???s/
• Rhymes: -ær?s

Verb

embarrass (third-person singular simple present embarrasses, present participle embarrassing, simple past and past participle embarrassed)

1. (transitive) to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash

2. (transitive) To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
3. (transitive) To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.

Synonyms

• (humiliate): abash, discomfit, disconcert, humiliate, shame
• See also Thesaurus:abash

Derived terms

• embarrassment

Translations

Further reading

• embarrass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• embarrass in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “embarrass”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

References

• “embarrass” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.