shame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃeɪm/
rhymes: -eɪm
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Etymology: From Middle English schamen, from Old English sċamian, from Proto-West Germanic *skamēn, from Proto-Germanic *skamāną.
Cognates
*Dutch schamen (“to be ashamed”)
*German schämen (“to be ashamed or embarrassed, bashful”)
*Danish, Norwegian Bokmål skamme (“to be ashamed”)
*Icelandic skamma (“to scold”)
*Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽 (skaman, “to be ashamed”).
Senses: examples: text: I was shamed by the teacher's public disapproval.
text: Were there but one righteous in the world, he would[…]shame the world, and not the world him.
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
synonyms: abash
glosses: To cause to feel shame.
examples: text: And with fowle cowardize his carcas ſhame,
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 13, page 295:
glosses: To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
examples: text: Stop shaming others about their food choices.
text: It is disgraceful that you should be used by adults for the purpose of trying to shame us because our extraction of timber from our forests.
ref: 1987 August 15, Mahathir Mohamad, Mahathir Mohamad's letter to Darrell Abercrombie:
glosses: To denounce as having done something shameful; to criticize with the intent or effect of causing a feeling of shame.
examples: text: The politician was shamed into resigning.
glosses: To drive or compel by shame.
examples: text: Broder she said I can not telle yow For it was not done by me nor by myn assente
 For he is my lord and I am his
 and he must be myn husband
 therfore my broder I wille that ye wete I shame me not to be with hym
 nor to doo hym alle the pleasyr that I can
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter XXII, in Le Morte Darthur, book VII:
text: I do ſhame to thinke of what a noble ſtraine you are, and of how coward a ſpirit.
ref: c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: To feel shame, be ashamed.
examples: text: Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 14:6:
glosses: To mock at; to deride.
Synonyms: sense: to cause to feel shame
word: demean
sense: to cause to feel shame
word: humiliate
sense: to cause to feel shame
word: insult
sense: to cause to feel shame
word: mortify
sense: to cause to feel shame
word: confound
Derived terms: ashamed
bald-shame
beshame
body-shame
creep-shame
fat-shame
forshame
gay-shame
kinkshame
name and shame
outshame
shameable
shamee
shamer
slut-shame
tell the truth and shame the devil
unshamed
vote-shame