shames

Verb

shame (third-person singular simple present shames, present participle shaming, simple past and past participle shamed)

1. (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
   • I was shamed by the teacher's public disapproval.

   Synonyms:

   abash, demean, humiliate, insult, mortify, confound

2. (transitive) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
   • And with fowle cowardize his carcas ſhame,1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13, page 295
3. (transitive) To denounce as having done something shameful; to criticize with the intent or effect of causing a feeling of shame.
   • Stop shaming others about their food choices.
4. (transitive) To drive or compel by shame.
   • The politician was shamed into resigning.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To feel shame, be ashamed.
   • Broder she said I can not telle yow For it was not done by me nor by myn assente
     For he is my lord and I am his
     and he must be myn husband
     therfore my broder I wille that ye wete I shame me not to be with hym
     nor to doo hym alle the pleasyr that I can1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XXII, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII
6. (obsolete, transitive) To mock at; to deride.
   • Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 14:6

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