abash – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to abash
Participle: abashed
Gerund: abashing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	abash
we	Let's abash
you	abash

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

defeat or humiliate

schlong

to make ashamed; to destroy the self-possession of

abase, bring low, debase, degrade, demean, depress, disconcert, lower, mortify, put to shame

To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.

confuse

To cause to be ashamed; to abash.

confound

To embarrass greatly; to confuse.

discomfit

To disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely.

embarrass

To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of.

humble

To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

humiliate

To cause to feel shame.

shame

disconcert

affront, confound, discourage, discountenance, embarrass, humble, humiliate, reproach

Antonyms

to make ashamed; to destroy the self-possession of

dignify, honor

disconcert

concert, calm, order, countenance

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1303, from O.Fr. esbaiss-, stem of esbaer "gape with astonishment," from es "out" + ba(y)er "to be open, gape," from L. *batare "to yawn, gape," from root *bat, possibly imitative of yawning. Bashful is 16c. derivative.
2. Attested from 1303, as Middle English abaisen, abaishen, abashen (“lose one's composure, be upset”), from the later 14th-century also transitive "to make ashamed, to perplex or embarrass"; from Anglo-Norman abaïss, from Middle French abair, abaisser (“lose one's composure, be startled, be stunned”), from Old French esbaïr, (French ébahir), from es- (“utterly”) + baïr (“to astonish”), from Medieval Latin *exbadō, from ex- (“out of”) + bado (“to gape, yawn”), an onomatopoeic word imitating a yawn, see also French badaud (“rubbernecker”).

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