Shamed

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shame \Shame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Shaming}.]
     1. To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness
        of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to
        reputation; to put to shame.
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              Were there but one righteous in the world, he would
              . . . shame the world, and not the world him.
                                                    --South.
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     2. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to
        disgrace.
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              And with foul cowardice his carcass shame.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     3. To mock at; to deride. [Obs. or R.]
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              Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor. --Ps. xiv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shamed
       adj 1: showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and
              shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric
              Linklater [syn: {guilty}, {hangdog}, {shamefaced}]
       2: suffering shame [syn: {discredited}, {disgraced}, {dishonored}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "shamed":
     abashed, ashamed, at a discount, blushing, chagrined, chapfallen,
     crestfallen, crushed, discredited, disgraced, embarrassed, hangdog,
     humbled, humiliated, in Dutch, in bad, in bad odor, in bad repute,
     in discredit, in disfavor, in disgrace, in disrepute,
     loaded with shame, mortified, out of countenance, out of favor,
     red-faced, shamefaced, shamefast, under a cloud
  
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Shamed, destroying; wearing out