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

She did not go to awaken his slumbering conscience, and to abash him in the pride of guilty triumph, but to rectify deliberate errors, and to change his course by the change of his principles.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

"Beware De Counterfiet if they should "Be imitate, as are all things good— "On de Guinea—for to abash bad men "I have write my name wid de author's Pen.

From The Harlot's Progress, The Rake's Progress (MS., CA. 1778-1780) by Anonymous