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abash

[uh-bash] / əˈbæʃ /
VERB
embarrass
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Antonyms
STRONG


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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

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.

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In between, the noise quotient would abash a pneumatic drill.

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You quite abash me by your progress in notting, for I am still without silk.

From Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record by William Austen-Leigh

It is hopeless to try to abash him; force even, as embodied in the Chief Justice, does not awe him overmuch, so well does he know that threats will not avail to impair his pleasure.

From A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George




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