Abash

Word ABASH
Character 5
Hyphenation a bash
Pronunciations /əˈbæʃ/

Definitions and meanings of "Abash"

What do we mean by abash?

To make ashamed or uneasy; disconcert. synonym: embarrass. transitive verb

To confuse or confound, as by suddenly exciting a consciousness of guilt, error, inferiority, etc.; destroy the self-possession of; make ashamed or dispirited; put to confusion.

To stand or be confounded; lose self-possession.

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. transitive verb

Cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious verb

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.

To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

1. (verb) to hit something real hard or a hit Urban Dictionary

A forever commitment of love between two souls. Unlike other words that can not describe the essence of love, this simple word is portrayed as giving your very being as devoting yourself to that person, forever more. 2. The strength and courage to risk everything for another. 3. To surrender ones self to be with another, giving up your past for your future. Urban Dictionary

Embarrased; ashamed; you get it... Urban Dictionary

When someone is purposely trying to embarrass you, they are being abashful. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Abash

The word "abash" in example sentences

“And sore must be the storm / That could abash the little bird / That kept so many warm.” ❋ Jill Bialosky (2011)

Admiration was not in it, for it did not agitate; nor audacity, for it did not abash; but something that thrilled warm through blood and nerves, that filled her with a glad submission to some power, absolute yet tender, and caused her to turn . . . ❋ Susan Cheever (2010)

Then said Brynhild, “Ill to abash folk of their mirth; prithee do not so; let us talk together for our disport of mighty kings and their great deeds.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Judah or Israel, descended from the rocks and caverns in which he dwelt in abstracted solitude, to abash earthly tyrants in the midst of their pride, by discharging on them the blighting denunciations of Divine Majesty, even as the cloud discharges the lightnings with which it is fraught on the pinnacles and towers of castles and palaces. ❋ Unknown (2008)

You must find those ADULTS to expect the abash these themes. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He did not abash me by causelesly laying my disorder on his story, and by offering to discontinue or postpone it. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The censures of mankind will pursue the wretch, their scorn will abash him in publick; and if shame drives him into retirement, he will go to it with all those terrors with which a weary child, who is afraid of hobgoblins, retreats from company to go to bed alone. ❋ Unknown (2004)

He had never blushed in his life: no humiliation could abash him: his nerves were not capable of sensation enough to stir his life, and make colour mount to his cheek: he had no fire in his blood, and no modesty in his soul: he was a frontless, arrogant; decorous slip of the commonplace; conceited, inane, insipid: and this gentleman had a notion of wooing Miss Keeldar! ❋ Unknown (2004)

"Of imposture!" cried Lady Devine, all her outraged maternity nerving her to abash her enemy. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It was, one may say, impossible for mortal man or woman to abash Madeline Neroni. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The entire metropolitan centre possessed a high and mighty air calculated to overawe and abash the common applicant, and to make the gulf between poverty and success seem both wide and deep. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“Nothing in the world can abash me now,” I thought as I wandered carelessly about the salon. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The titter that rippled around the room appeared to abash the boy, but in reality that result was caused rather more by his worshipful awe of his unknown idol and the dread pleasure that lay in his high good fortune. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I had not known before that you were trying somehow to abash me I should know it now. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Now this Christian act of the brave Lord Willbewill did greatly abash ❋ Unknown (2001)

When, however, ye have an enemy, then return him not good for evil: for that would abash him. ❋ Unknown (2001)

John [abashed] [the quarterback] into [the cold], hard, ground ❋ Chris LaRocca (2008)

She abashe her [old] life to [join] with her [husband]. ❋ JohnInTexas (2010)

would you be abashed if your private parts were [flashed], while your fly was [unzipped], and your underwear was ripped? If to yourself your true, the answer is, of course [wouldn't you]? ❋ Vocabfreak (2005)

[Don't do that] [in public]! Your being so [abashful]. ❋ Etha7 (2010)

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