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ABASH

\ɐbˈaʃ], \ɐbˈaʃ], \ɐ_b_ˈa_ʃ]\

Definitions of ABASH

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language

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To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.

1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
By Noah Webster.

To put to shame; to disconcert; to humiliate.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

To make ashamed; confound.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

To make ashamed; confuse; embarrass.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

To put to confusion through shame on being discovered in a guilty or unworthy action or condition.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

To confuse with guilt; to make ashamed.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

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