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abash

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


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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

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

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

The calmness with which I uttered this seemed at once to abash and infuriate him.

From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Green, Anna Katharine

This, however, did not abash the "full moon," for he advanced closer, and laid one burly hand upon the railing beside her.

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