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abashest

abashest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of abash.

Meaning of abash

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...
  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

Origin of abashest

abash + -est

Questions about abashest

What is abashest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Abashest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of abash.

Words near abashest in the dictionary

  1. abashable
  2. abashed
  3. abashedly
  4. abashedness
  5. abashes
  6. abashest
  7. abasheth
  8. Abashev
  9. abashing
  10. abashingly
  11. abashless

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