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shamed |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shame \Shame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shamed}; p. pr & vb n. {Shaming}.] 1. To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to reputation; to put to shame. Were there but one righteous in the world, he would . . . shame the world, and not the world him --South. 2. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace. And with foul cowardice his carcass shame. --Spenser. 3. To mock at to deride. [Obs. or R.] Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor. --Ps. xiv. 6. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shamed adj 1: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater [syn: {guilty}, {hangdog}, {shamefaced}] 2: suffering shame [syn: {discredited}, {disgraced}, {dishonored}] From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Shamed, destroying; wearing out
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