abash
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Major scenes are Ivan's coronation; his destruction of the Tartar city of Kazan; his rising from his supposed deathbed to abash those who are plotting against his son's succession.
From Time Magazine Archive
In between, the noise quotient would abash a pneumatic drill.
From Time Magazine Archive
Friends made in the Young Men's Bible Class at his uncle's church abash his rusticity, put him in touch with the spirit of the time, to Succeed.
From Time Magazine Archive
A chaplain of the bishop, standing by, turned the poor man about and thinking to abash him, said, in mocking wise, "What have we here—a player!"
From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John
Confused and blushing, La Louve ventured neither to reply nor raise her eyes towards Madame d'Harville, so completely did the presence of that dignified person abash and overpower her.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
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"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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