Cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious.
1 The presence of the strangers did not abash her in the least.
2 It seemed to abash the ruffian, in spite of his habitual effrontery.
3 But his was not the nature any earthly dread could long abash .
4 Divers flocks of clouds, camp-followers of the storm, could not abash her.
5 Remember that the pupil does not always permanently abash his teacher.
6 It is quite an informal little gathering, with nothing to abash even Mr.
7 The prince of upstarts, man could not abash him, nor naked steel affright!
8 It is the law that has done it, and we cannot abash the law.
9 Silence, apparently, did not in the least abash this man.
10 A mere glance at him is sufficient to abash you.
11 He is, further, a young man whom nothing can abash .
12 It was, one may say, impossible for mortal man or woman to abash Madeline Neroni.
13 The general voice was eager to abash him.
14 If she hoped that a frigid tone and utterance might abash her intruding questioner, they failed.
15 Probably my remarks will so abash Mr. O'Connor that he will immediately promise to be good.
16 And rather be angry than abash any one!
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