OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 126

abash

/əˈbæʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abochornar • avergonzar • confundir
To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
He was a man whom no check could abash
The stare seemed to abash Poirot.