beschämen — meaning in English

English meaning

• abash verb 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.
• confound verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
• demean verb To lower someone's dignity or make them seem less worthy of respect.
• humiliate verb To make someone feel ashamed or foolish, often publicly.
• shame noun A painful feeling of embarrassment or guilt caused by awareness of having done something wrong or improper.
• shaming noun The act of publicly criticising or humiliating someone to make them feel ashamed.

Senses

beschämen is used for these senses in English:

• abash (transitive) 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. [First attested from around (1150 to 1350).]
• confound To cause to be ashamed; to abash.
• demean (obsolete) To manage; to conduct; to treat.
• humiliate (transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
• shame (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
• shaming The activity by which somebody is shamed.

abash — full definition

1. verb 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.
2. verb To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.

confound — full definition

1. verb To completely puzzle or baffle someone.
2. verb To mix up or fail to distinguish between two things.
3. verb To defeat or ruin someone's plans.
4. noun In statistics, a variable that distorts the apparent relationship between two other variables (a "confounding variable").

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