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Verb
/əˈbaSH/,
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abashed, past participle; abashed, past tense; abashing, present participle; abashes, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Cause to feel embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed
    • - she was not abashed at being caught
  1. embarrass: cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
  2. (abashed) feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious; "felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her child's tantrums"
  3. (abashment) feeling embarrassed due to modesty
  4. To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit; (obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed
  5. (abashment) The state of being abashed; confusion from shame
  6. (Abashed) Within Ron Edwards' GNS theory, a game design with features of multiple GNS modes that are contradictory -- but which are easily correctable by ignoring or altering isolated portions of the rules (minor Drift). ...
  7. (abashed) adj. | make ashamed, ill at ease; embarassed | It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints. (p. 108)
  8. (abashed) before the assembled dignitaries.
  9. to make somebody ashamed
  10. embarrass, disconcert