abash

We intend to confound them, to abash and bring them down, when we should in fact be examining what they say closely for its fascist potential.

The stare seemed to abash Poirot.

Wilson, by his account, fired four separate volleys of bullets, but found that the first three of them did nothing to abash Brown; in his telling, they seemed almost to excite him.

To check the familiarity of others, you need not become stiff, sullen, nor cold, but you will find that excessive politeness on your own part, sometimes with a little formality, will soon abash the intruder.

He was a man whom no check could abash.