ABASH

abash

Verb

  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. <ref name=SOED/>
    "He was a man whom no check could abash." – .
  2. To lose self-possession; to become ashamed. <ref name=SOED/>


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