abash

[US]/əˈbæʃ/
[UK]/əˈbæʃ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. embarrass or make feel uncomfortable
adj. embarrassed or feeling uncomfortable
adv. in an embarrassed or uncomfortable manner
n. embarrassment or feeling of discomfort
Word Forms
Past Tenseabashed
Third Person Singularabashes
Present Participleabashing
Past Participleabashed
Pluralabashes

Phrases & Collocations

feel abashed

Example Sentences

Nothing can abash him.

I stood abashed at his rebuke.

Your kindness quite abashed me.

felt abashed at the extravagant praise;

The girl was abashed by the laughter of her classmates.

Her kindness quite abashed me.

The entire metropolitan center possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant.

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