Feel+ashamed

  • 11ashamed — adj. VERBS ▪ be, feel, look, seem, sound ▪ make sb ▪ His foul mouthed way of speaking made me ashamed of him. ADVERB …

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  • 12ashamed — [OE] Ashamed is an Old English compound, formed ultimately from the noun scamu ‘shame’. The verb derived from this, scamian, meant ‘feel shame’ as well as (as in modern English) ‘put to shame’, and in this sense the intensive prefix ā was added… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 13ashamed — [OE] Ashamed is an Old English compound, formed ultimately from the noun scamu ‘shame’. The verb derived from this, scamian, meant ‘feel shame’ as well as (as in modern English) ‘put to shame’, and in this sense the intensive prefix ā was added… …

    Word origins

  • 14ashamed — adjective feeling embarrassed or guilty: she felt ashamed that she had hit him. Derivatives ashamedly adverb Origin OE āscamod, past participle of āscamian feel shame , from ā (as an intensifier) + shame …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 15feel shame — experience shame, be ashamed …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 16feel small — idi to be ashamed or mortified …

    From formal English to slang

  • 17nothing to be ashamed of — phrase used for telling someone that they should not feel ashamed Being poor is nothing to be ashamed of. Thesaurus: ways of telling someone not to worry or be upsetsynonym Main entry: ashamed …

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  • 18nothing to be ashamed of — used for telling someone that they should not feel ashamed Being poor is nothing to be ashamed of …

    English dictionary

  • 19be ashamed of someone — 1) to feel disappointed and upset by someone s behaviour I m ashamed of you – lying to your teacher! 2) to feel embarrassed because you are related to someone or connected with them I could tell they were ashamed of me …

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  • 20be ashamed to do something — phrase to fail to do something, or not want to do it, because it would make you feel guilty or embarrassed He was ashamed to tell his family what had happened. Thesaurus: to be, or to become ashamed or embarrassedsynonym Main entry: ashamed …

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