abash

vt. 使不安, 使羞愧, 使困窘

发音

UK /əˈbæʃ/
US /əˈbæʃ/
CA

词形变化

abashed abashes 三单 abashes abashest abasheth abashing abasht abashing 现在分词 abashed 过去式 abashed 过去分词

别名

abasse

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    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.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

    不及物 废旧

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

embarrass

上位词 5

upset disconcert discomfit discompose untune

下位词 4

confuse flurry disconcert put off

词源

Attested from 1303, as Middle English abaisen, abaishen, abashen (“lose one's composure, be upset”), from the later 14th-century also transitive "to make ashamed, to perplex or embarrass"; from Anglo-Norman abaïss, from Middle French abair, abaisser (“lose one's composure, be startled, be stunned”), from Old French esbaïr, (French ébahir), from es- (“utterly”) + baïr (“to astonish”), from Medieval Latin *exbadō, from ex- (“out of”) + bado (“to gape, yawn”), an onomatopoeic word imitating a yawn, see also French badaud (“rubbernecker”).

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