abash
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Động từ
verb- 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.
Đồng nghĩa: bewilder, confuse, confound, daunt, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dishearten, embarrass, faze, fluster, humble, humiliate, mortify, rattle, shake, shame, snub
- 2.
(intransitive, obsolete)To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
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Attested from 1303, as Middle English abaisen, abaishen, abashen (lose one's composure, be upset), from the later 14th-century also transitive "to make ashamed, to perplex or embarrass"; from abaïss, from Middle French abair, abaisser (lose one's composure, be startled, be stunned), from Old French esbaïr, (French ébahir), from es- (utterly) + baïr (to astonish), from *exbadō, from ex- (out of) +…