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ashamed

adj
/əˈʃeɪmd/

Etymology

From Middle English ashamed, aschamed, from Old English āsċamod, past participle of Old English āsċamian (“to be ashamed”), equivalent to a- + shame + -ed.

  1. derived from āsċamian — “to be ashamed”
  2. inherited from āsċamod
  3. inherited from ashamed

Definitions

  1. Feeling shame or guilt.

    • They ſhal be turned backe : they ſhal be greatly aſhamed, that truſt in grauẽ images, and ſay to the molten images, Ye are our gods.
    • Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

  2. simple past and past participle of ashame

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ashamed. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at ashamed. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at ashamed

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA