abash

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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

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.

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The presence of the strangers did not abash her in the least.

From Jack 1877 by Sherwood, Mary Neal

To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah