verb/ʒɛ.ne/
to hinder, hamper, bother; to bother, annoy, irritate; to embarrass; to be bothered about something
“Arrête de me regarder comme ça, ça me gêne.” — Stop looking at me like that; it's making me uncomfortable.
Inherited from Middle French genner, from Old French gehisner, derivative of gehine (“torture resulting from confession, embarrassment”), of Frankish origin. By surface analysis, gêne + -er.