Abash

Definition: Abash

Abash

Verb

1. Cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious.

Date "abash" was first used: some time around 1303. (references)

Synonym: Abash

Synonym: embarrass (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fear	Put in fear, put in bodily fear; terrorize, intimidate, cow, daunt, overawe, abash, deter, discourage; browbeat, bully; threaten.
Humility	Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Abash

English words defined with "abash": Abashing ♦ Weak. (references)

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Language		Translations for "abash"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		beskaam (put, put to shame). (various references)

Albanian		turbulloj (addle, alarm, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disquiet, embarrass, fog, muddy, obfuscate, obscure, perturb, rile, roil, trouble, unhinge, unsettle), shastis (discountenance, disorient, disorientate, mystify, overwhelm, perplex, wilder), hutoj (baffle, befuddle, bewilder, confound, confuse, dash, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, disorient, disorientate, distract, floor, flummox, mystify, overwhelm, perplex, pose, puzzle, wilder). (various references)

Arabic		‏خجل (bashfulness, be ashamed, blush, dash, diffident, efface oneself, make shy, mantle, redden, shame, shy, shyness, timidity), ‏أضعف ثقة شخص بنفسه. (various references)

Bulgarian		сконфузвам (outface), обърквам (addle, baffle, bedevil, befuddle, bewilder, complicate, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, disjoint, dislocate, distract, embarrass, embroil, flatten, flummox, fluster, foil, fuddle, gravel, jumble, maze, mess about, mess around, mess up, muddle, muff, muss, nonplus, obfuscate, overwhelm, perplex, pose, put off, put out, puzzle, sew up, snarl, stonker, throw out, tumble, vex, wilder), засрамвам (dash, discountenance, shame). (various references)

Chinese		窘迫 (Abashed, Abashing), 使羞愧 . (various references)

Czech		zahanbit (humble, shame). (various references)

Dutch		beschamen (put to shame), beschaamd maken (put to shame). (various references)

Esperanto		superblufi, hontigi (put to shame). (various references)

Faeroese		koma í kløtur (embarrass). (various references)

Farsi		خجالت دادن (Embarrass, Shame), شرمنده کردن (Shame), دست پاچه نمودن (Bash). (various references)

French		remplir qn de confusion. (various references)

German		beschämen (embarrass, humiliate, make-fell-ashamed, mortify, put to shame, shame, to abash, to embarrass). (various references)

Greek		καταισχύνω (disgrace, outrage, shame), ταράσσω (agitate, confound, discompose, disconcert, disturb, flurry, flutter, jar, roil, ruffle, shock, stir), ταράσω, δημιουργώ αίσθημα μειονεκτικότητασ ή ενοχήσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"עליב (affront, give offense, insult, miff, offend, slight), ל�"ביך (baffle, bewilder, confound, disconcert, embarrass, maze, nonplus, perplex, show up). (various references)

Hungarian		zavarba hoz (confound, confuse, disconcert, embarrass, maze, nonplus, outface, perplex, puzzle, to abash, to confound, to discomfit, to disconcert, to embarrass, to faze, to flummox, to flurry, to hobble, to nonplus, to perplex, to puzzle), megszégyenít (affront, dishonor, dishonour, shame, to abash, to affront, to disgrace, to dishonor, to put to shame, to shame). (various references)

Indonesian		memberi malu. (various references)

Italian		sconcertare (baffle, be disconcerted, bewilder, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, faze, flummox, nonplus, stagger), confondere (addle, baffle, beat, become confuse, bemuse, bewilder, bother, confound, confuse, embarrass, foil, garble, get mixed up, jumble, merge, mistake, mix, mix up, muddle, mystify, obfuscate, puzzle, stump). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		まくり上�'る (clearly, confused, Never!, plainly, to abash, to be confused, to be flustered, to tuck, vividly, You don't say!). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ま�"つかせる (to abash). (various references)

Manx		nearaghey (disgrace, shame). (various references)

Norwegian		gjøre skamfull. (various references)

Pig Latin		abashay.(various references)

Portuguese		embaraçar (astonish, astound, blur, clog, cumber, derange, detain, dim, disconcert, embarrass, embroil, encumber, entangle, ha, hamper, hinder, impede, implicate, puzzle, quiz, straiten, trammel). (various references)

Romanian		umili (abase, bear down, humble, humiliate, mortify, snub, stoop, submit, take down), ruşina (confuse, crush, shame), face de ruşine (put to shame, shame), descumpãni (disconcert, outstare, unbalance, upset). (various references)

Russian		смущать (bemuse, bewilder, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze, flummox, perturb, rattle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zbuniti (addle, baffle, befuddle, bemuse, bepuzzle, bewilder, confound, confuse, discomfit, disconcert, distract, embarrass, faze, maze, nonplus, perplex, perturb, pose, puzzle, rattle, stick, stump), biti zbunjen (be dazzled, be puzzled). (various references)

Spanish		avergonzar (discountenance, embarrass, shame), desconcertar (baffle, bewilder, break up, confound, confuse, disconcert, disorder, faze, maze, mystify, put off, put out, puzzle, throw, throw out, upset). (various references)

Swedish		göra generad. (various references)

Turkish		utandırmak (bring disgrace on smb., confound, disgrace, embarrass, humiliate, make smb. feel small, mortify, put smb. to confusion, put smb. to shame, put to the blush, scandalize, shame, wither), gururunu kırmak (deflate), bozmak (abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references)

Ukranian		соромити (affront, shame), конфузити, бентежити (affront, bewilder, confound, confuse, damp, dank, daunt, disarray, discomfit, disconcert, discourage, dismay, disorder, embarrass, embrangle, flummox, muddle, overset, perplex, perturb, puddle, puzzle, upturn). (various references)

Welsh		cywilyddio (be ashamed, shame). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	perturbare. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "abash": abashed, abashes, abashing, abashment, abashments. (additional references)
	Words ending with "abash": calabash. (additional references)
	Words containing "abash": calabashes, unabashed, unabashedly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Abash" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaaaah, aaaagh, aaahh, Aaahs, aah, aahh, aahhhh, aahs, aash, abah, abas, abasa, Abasha, abashs, Abashum, abasr, abass, abast, abath, Abaza, Abazah, Abazi, abbas, Abbassy, abdabs, Abihu, abish, abishai, abmaphd, abodh, abos, abrash, absat, adath, Akaash, akash, amash, Ambasz, Arashi, arbas, babassu, Jabach, obesh, Oyash. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "abash" (pronounced uba"sh)
3	-b a" sh	bash.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-h-s"
	-1 letter: aahs, abas, baas, bash.
	-2 letters: aah, aas, aba, abs, aha, ash, baa, bah, bas, has, sab, sha.
	-3 letters: aa, ab, ah, as, ba, ha, sh.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-b-h-s"
	+1 letter: bashaw, casbah, kasbah.
	+2 letters: abashed, abashes, bashaws, bhaktas, bharals, brahmas, casbahs, kasbahs, sabbath, sambhar.
	+3 letters: abashing, babushka, backlash, backwash, bahadurs, barchans, bathmats, calabash, cashable, habitans, habitats, handbags, hatbands, mastabah, sabbaths, sambhars, seabeach, shagbark, shakable, shamable, shapable, sharable, shavable, subahdar, washable.
	+4 letters: abashment, abrachias, alphabets, autobahns, babushkas, bacchants, backaches, backchats, backhands, backhauls, backslash, baldheads, ballhawks, baratheas, bauhinias, brachials, brainwash, brouhahas, cabbalahs, chambrays, dahabeahs, dahabiahs, dahabiehs, dahabiyas, dashboard, fahlbands, flashback, galabiehs, habaneras, habdalahs, habitants, hairballs, hairbands, halfbacks, halfbeaks, handballs, hardbacks, hardballs, headbands, hibakusha, kabbalahs, mastabahs, shagbarks, shakeable, shapeable, shareable, subahdars, unabashed, washables, washbasin, washboard.
	+5 letters: abashments, amphibians, bacchanals, bacchantes, backlashed, backlasher, backlashes, backsplash, backwashed, backwashes, baldachins, balderdash, barographs, basophilia, bathwaters, bathyscaph, beachheads, bilharzias, biohazards, blackheads, brachiates, calabashes, carbachols, charabancs, chawbacons, dashboards, djellabahs, encashable, flashbacks, flashboard, habituates, handbasket, handlebars, harborages, hardboards, hatchbacks, headboards, heartbeats, huckabacks, husbandman, hypabyssal, seabeaches, searchable, unshakable, unshakably, vibraharps, washbasins, washboards, watchables, watchbands, whalebacks, whaleboats.
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