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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 cha·grin /ʃəˈgrɪn/
 懊惱(vt.)使懊惱

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cha·grin n.  Vexation; mortification.
    I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction.   --Richard Porson.
    Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin.   --Pope.
 Syn: -- Vexation; mortification; peevishness; fretfulness; disgust; disquiet.
 Usage: Chagrin, Vexation, Mortification. These words agree in the general sense of pain produced by untoward circumstances. Vexation is a feeling of disquietude or irritating uneasiness from numerous causes, such as losses, disappointments, etc. Mortification is a stronger word, and denotes that keen sense of pain which results from wounded pride or humiliating occurrences. Chagrin is literally the cutting pain produced by the friction of Shagreen leather; in its figurative sense, it varies in meaning, denoting in its lower degrees simply a state of vexation, and its higher degrees the keenest sense of mortification.
 Vexation arises chiefly from our wishes and views being crossed: mortification, from our self-importance being hurt; chagrin, from a mixture of the two.”   --Crabb.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cha·grin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chagrined p. pr. & vb. n. Chargrining.]  To excite ill-humor in; to vex; to mortify; as, he was not a little chagrined.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cha·grin, a. Chagrined.
 

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Cha·grin, v. i. To be vexed or annoyed.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 chagrin
      n : strong feelings of embarrassment [syn: humiliation, mortification]
      v : cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his
          colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn:
          humiliate, mortify, humble, abase]