ashaming
ashaming is the present participle and gerund of ashame.
Meaning of ashame
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)
Words formed from ashaming
Questions about ashaming
- What is ashaming the present participle and gerund of?
- Ashaming is the present participle and gerund of ashame.
Words near ashaming in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ashaming (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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