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asham'd

asham'd is the alternative form of ashamed.

asham'd is the simple past and past participle of ashame.

Meaning of ashamed

Adjective

ashamed (comparative more ashamed, superlative most ashamed)

  1. Feeling shame or guilt.
    • They ſhal be turned backe : they ſhal be greatly aſhamed, that truſt in grauẽ images, and ſay to the molten images, Ye are our gods.1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Isaiah XLII:17, folio...
    Synonyms:
    abashed

Meaning of ashame

Verb

ashame (third-person singular simple present ashames, present participle ashaming, simple past and past participle ashamed)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To feel shame; to be ashamed.
    • Ashame thou, Sidon, seith the se, the strengthe of the se, seiende, I trauailide not with child, and bar not, and nurshede not out ȝung childer, ne to ful waxing broȝte forth maidenes.c. 1390, John Wycliffe, transl., edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal Books, in the Earliest English Versions...
  2. (rare, transitive) To make ashamed; to shame.
    • I am young Woman indifferently well brought up in the Country, and might raiſe my fortune conſiderably had I not got ſuch a Habit of Sweating, which quite aſhames me, when in Company, to ſee my Face of a dewy Sweat, and the generality complain of Cold.1740, The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, Sylvanus Urban (ed.), vol 10, p. 245 (Google preview)

Forms of asham'd

comparativemore asham'd
superlativemost asham'd

Questions about asham'd

What is asham'd the alternative form of?
Asham'd is the alternative form of ashamed.

Words near asham'd in the dictionary

  1. Ash-vegas
  2. asha
  3. Ashadha
  4. ashake
  5. asham
  6. asham'd
  7. ashame
  8. ashamed
  9. ashamedly
  10. ashamedness
  11. ashames

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Adapted from Wiktionary: asham'd (page history and authors); ashamed (page history and authors); ashame (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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