abasht

abasht is the obsolete form of abashed.

abasht is the simple past and past participle of abash.

Meaning of abashed

abashed (comparative more abashed, superlative most abashed)

Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
- The scanty garments of fig-leaves with which our abashed first parents sought to conceal their nakedness.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 5

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

(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
(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

comparative	more abasht
superlative	most abasht

What is abasht the obsolete form of?: Abasht is the obsolete form of abashed.

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