abash

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

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