Definition of "abashes" [abashes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of abash. (verb)

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• "Nothing surprises or abashes him, he bows profoundly to Sir Harry and Lady Parkes when he encounters them, but is obviously “quite at home” in a Legation, and only allowed one of the orderlies to show him how to put on a"
• "It weighs on him, it is a burden, a pressure, it sinks and abashes him."
• "Eugene O'Neill of accident which keeps a homesick sailor tied to the sea in "The Long Voyage Home," and the mutual humiliation which abashes both victim and tormentors when, as conclusion to the panicky solemnities of "In the Zone," a parcel of Smitty's is found to be a bunch of old love-letters instead of the suspected bomb."