acute embarrassment

collocation in English

meaningsofacuteandembarrassment

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acute
adjective
uk
/əˈkjuːt/us
/əˈkjuːt/
If a bad situation is acute, it causes severe problems ...
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embarrassment
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪmˈbær.əs.mənt/us
/ɪmˈber.əs.mənt/
the feeling of being embarrassed, or something that makes you ...
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(Definition ofacuteandembarrassmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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No person of any compassion could feel anything butacuteembarrassmentat visiting many of our city-centre prisons.
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This problem has never hit us before, but it is a source of very great discontent andacuteembarrassmentto us at this moment.
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I know that it is true that the exchange rate at its current level causesacuteembarrassmentand hardship for a number of companies.
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Indeed, to press them would be likely at the present moment to cause themacuteembarrassmentand increase the difficulties of the situation.
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Thirdly, some patients experienceacuteembarrassmentperforming toilet procedures in mixed wards.
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Is the reason heracuteembarrassmentthat the tax burden on the rich has gone down while that on everyone else has gone up?
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Unexpectedly, and to theiracuteembarrassment, we have done it.
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It is accepted by everyone that low-flying aircraft are anacuteembarrassmentand, in some cases, cause great suffering to people and to livestock.
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What is more,acuteembarrassmentcan be caused at later stages of the child's development.
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They are used by people here, and this often causesacuteembarrassmentto foreign students?
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If people do not take this matter seriously, sooner or later there will beacuteembarrassment.
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If doctors are under an obligation to raise the issue, they will be saved theacuteembarrassmentof suggesting a donation of organs on the death of a loved one.
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Technically, the advice may be correct but in practice it results in considerable financial loss as well asacuteembarrassmentto the persons concerned.
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