ashame
/əˈʃeɪm/
ashame verb: to feel shame; to be ashamed.
Verb
ashame (third-person singular simple present ashames, present participle ashaming, simple past and past participle ashamed)
- 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...
- 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)
- The notice annoyed and ashamed him.1860, Frederic W. Farrar, Julian Home: A Tale of College Life, page 99
ashame meaning in Tamil
ashame in Tamil
- வெள்கல்
Examples of ashame in a sentence
- If it is one Minister who has done it he has ashamed us all and the title "Minister" will not be respected anymore.1983, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) Oct 18 - Dec 1, page 399:
- They would think that I had abandoned them, that I could not handle the stress and pressure and this ashamed me immensely.2009, Steve Scott, Insiders - Outsiders, →ISBN, pages 36–37:
- “We have ashamed and defeated our attackers.”2013 September 24, Sudarsan Raghavan, “Kenyan officials say Nairobi mall siege is over”, in Washington Post, retrieved 30 Sep 2013:
Forms of ashame
| third-person singular present | ashames |
|---|---|
| present participle | ashaming |
| past participle | ashamed |
| past | ashamed |
Origin of ashame
From Old English āsċamian, from ā- + sċamian (“feel shame”), from Proto-Germanic *skamēnan, from *skamō (“shame, humiliation”).
Words that rhyme with ashame
37 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- reclaim
- same
- blame
- declaim
- disclaim
- squame
- aflame
- came
- defame
- fame
- rame
- became
- crame
- exclaim
- mechanical game
- misname
- overcame
- proclaim
- second name
- BAME
- by name
- cyberfame
- deadname
- enflame
- file names
- good game
- hame
- herostratic fame
- maim
- Markush claim
- reclame
- rename
- run game
- sejm
- succame
- two can play this game
- video game
Questions about ashame
- What does ashame mean?
- Ashame means to feel shame; to be ashamed.
- What is ashame in Tamil?
- Ashame in Tamil is வெள்கல். See Ashame meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use ashame in a sentence?
- If it is one Minister who has done it he has ashamed us all and the title "Minister" will not be respected anymore.
- What part of speech is ashame?
- Ashame is a verb.
- How do you pronounce ashame?
- Ashame is pronounced /əˈʃeɪm/.
- What is the past tense of ashame?
- The past tense of ashame is ashamed.
Words near ashame in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ashame (page history and authors); ashame (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ashame.wav.
Cite this entry: “ashame.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ashame. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.