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abash

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


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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

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

One of his flock had made some rude remarks about the chaplain's mettle; and to abash him Bennett had marched step by step with the men that day.

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

But of my bright blee, sirs, abash ye not!

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various




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