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utandırmak — meaning in English

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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.
  • 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.

Senses

utandırmak 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.
  • humiliate (transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
  • shame (transitive) To cause to feel shame.

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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