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