envergonhar — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abash verb To make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed, so that they lose their composure.
- confuse verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
- 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
envergonhar 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).]
- confuse (transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.
- shame (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
- shaming The activity by which somebody is shamed.
abash — full definition
- verb To make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed, so that they lose their composure.
- verb To become flustered or ashamed.
confuse — full definition
- verb To make someone unable to understand or think clearly.
- verb To mistake one thing for another.
- verb To make someone feel embarrassed or flustered.
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