abashes

Verb

abash (third-person singular simple present abashes, present participle abashing, simple past and past participle abashed)

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.
   • He was a man whom no check could abash1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XIV, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and...

   Synonyms:

   bewilder, confuse, confound, daunt, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, dishearten, embarrass, faze

   Antonyms:

   abet, animate, buoy, cheer, countenance, embolden, encourage, incite, inspirit, rally

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.
   • [...] 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.1485 July 31, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter III, in William Caxton, editor, Le Morte d'Arthur, volume 1