abash
verbEtymology
Attested from 1303, as Middle English abaisen, abaishen, abashen (“lose one's composure, be upset”), from the later 14th-century also transitive "to make ashamed, to perplex or embarrass"; from Anglo-Norman abaïss, from Middle French abair, abaisser (“lose one's composure, be startled, be stunned”), from Old French esbaïr, (French ébahir), from es- (“utterly”) + baïr (“to astonish”), from Medieval Latin *exbadō, from ex- (“out of”) + bado (“to gape, yawn”), an onomatopoeic word imitating a yawn, see also French badaud (“rubbernecker”).
Definitions
To make ashamed
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.
- He was a man whom no check could abash
- The stare seemed to abash Poirot.
To lose self-possession
To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
- [...] 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.
The neighborhood
- synonymabase
- synonymabash
- synonymbring low
- synonymconfuse
- synonymconfound
- synonymdebase
- synonymdegrade
- synonymdemean
- synonymdepress
- synonymdisconcert
- synonymdiscomfit
- synonymdishonour
- antonymdignify
- antonymhonor
- neighborembarrassed
- neighborattack
- neighbordefame
- neighborderide
- neighborinsult
- neighbormock
- neighborether
- neighborput someone in his place
- neighborschlong
- neighborsoften someone's cough
- neighbormake a fool of oneself
- neighbormake a spectacle of oneself
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA