Abash Explained!!

Abash Explained!!

Abash

verb

Meaning and Usage:

• To make someone feel embarrassed, ashamed and destroy their self-confidence
• To be taken aback
• To be or feel humiliated, and disconcerted/inferior or guilty

A child’s temper tantrum would abash a parent.

The prisoners are constantly abashed in jail.

She was not abashed when found smoking in restricted areas.

The cowboy was left abashed by constant mockery.

Other Forms:

• Abashment - noun
• Abashedly - adverb
• Abashing - past participle
• Unabashed
• Unabatable - adjective
• Unabating - adjective
• Unabashedly - adverb

Synonyms:

• Humiliated
• Disconcerted
• Shame
• Ashamed
• Remorseful
• Discountenance
• Embarrass
• Demean
• Debase
• Discomfit
• Mortify
• Rattle
• Bewilder
• Sheepish
• Dash
• Crush

Antonyms:

• Unabashed 
• Undaunted
• Dignify
• Honor
• Cheer
• Encourage
• Hearten
• Assure
• Reassure
• Console
• Soothe
• Relieve
• Comfort
• Cheer
• Buoy
• Embolden

Related Words:

• Unsettle
• Agitate
• Degrade
• Bother
• Chagrin
• Discomfort
• Perturb
• Put off
• Confused
• Confound
• Put to shame
• Bring low

Rhymes:

• Backlash
• Encash
• Moustache
• Soutache 
• Panache
• Unlash
• Calash, fly ash, and anything that ends with “ash’’, "ache", 
• Czardas

Anagrams:

• Sabah
• Sabha

Origin:

1275-1325; Middle English abaishen < dialectal Old French abacher, Old French abaissier to put down, bring low, perhaps conflated with Anglo-French abaiss-, long stem of abair, Old French esba(h)ir togape, marvel, amaze, alteration of baer to open wide, gape

Sentences:

1. The boy looked down, abashed. 
2. The officer tried to abash the inmates, humiliating them and treating them like dogs.
3. His boss’s criticism left him rather feeling abashed.
4. They sat around and listened with abashed smiles as Carlo read them his mad poetry.
5. The young men were happy, but a little abashed by all the magnificence.
6. When the police looked at Roma accusingly, she felt abashed.
7. It is not very healthy to abash a child for every mistake of his as a parent.
8. The entire Islamic community has been forced to feel abashed due to the labeling of terror activities initiated by some of them.
9. Sania was extremely abashed at the party when she realized that she was not invited, rather the so-called invitation was a fake one.
10. It would have been useless; nothing could alter or abash her inherent un-morality.
11. The presence of the strangers did not abash her in the least.

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