abash

1. (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.Examples: "He was a man whom no check could abash"; "The stare seemed to abash Poirot."Synonyms: bewilder, confuse, confound, daunt, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, disheartenAntonyms: abet, animate, buoy, cheer, countenance, embolden, encourage, incitetransitive

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To lose self-possession; to become ashamed.Examples: "[...] as King Uther lay by his queen, he asked her, by the faith she owed to him, whose was the body; then she sore abashed to give answer."intransitiveobsolete