Abash

Quick meaning: Abash is a verb meaning (intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

Meaning

(intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) 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.

Example Sentences

The stare seemed to abash Poirot.

He was a man whom no check could abash

[...] 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.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for abash

Depending on context, synonyms include abase, confuse, confound, debase, degrade, demean.

Antonyms for abash

Common opposites include dignify, honor, abet, buoy, cheer, countenance.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embarrass, shame, disconcert, confound, imbarrass, ashame.

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