abash

abash (Englisch)

Verb
Zeitform Person Wortform
simple present I, you, theyabash
he, she, itabashes
simple past  abashed
present participle  abashing
past participle  abashed

Worttrennung:

a·bash

Aussprache:

IPA: [əˈbæʃ]
Hörbeispiele:  abash (US-amerikanisch) (Info)

Bedeutungen:

[1] in Verlegenheit bringen, in Verlegenheit versetzen

Synonyme:

[1] embarrass

Gegenwörter:

unabash

Beispiele:

[1] "To throw a cloud of doubt over truth clear as noon-day, to embarrass innocent and shrinking witnesses whose alarm is dexterously made to imply untruthfulness, to abash all who are concerned for or against a plaintiff or defendant, so that the witness-stand is a torture and an insult; these and many such are the aims of a class of lawyers who, we suppose, outside of their professional duties, are fully entitled to the name of gentlemen."[1]

Wortbildungen:

abashment

Übersetzungen
 

Referenzen und weiterführende Informationen:

[1] Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary „abash“
[1] Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus „abash“
[1] Dictionary.com Englisch-Englisches Wörterbuch, Thesaurus und Enzyklopädie „abash“
[1] dict.cc Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „abash“
[1] LEO Englisch-Deutsch, Stichwort: „abash“

Quellen:

  1. Legal Lincentiousness of Speech.. In: The New York Times Online. 14. Dezember 1865, ISSN 0362-4331 (URL, abgerufen am 12. Dezember 2012).
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