Meaning & use
Abash
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To make someone feel embarrassed, ashamed, or uneasy.
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Nothing seemed to abash the confident young performer, not even the heckling.
She was not easily abashed by criticism.
A note on using this word
Abash is most familiar today in its negative form, 'unabashed', meaning unashamed or bold, which is far more common than the root verb itself.
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