abash

Definitions

1. To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
   transitive
2. To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
   intransitive, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“He was a man whom no check could abash”

“The stare⟳ seemed to abash Poirot.”

“[...] as King Uther lay⟳ by his queen, he asked her, by the faith she owed to him, whose was the body; then she sore abashed to give⟳ answer⟳.”

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