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Definitions of abashed:

Confounded; put to silence.

Usage examples for abashed:

• " Disgrace," repeated the Major, gazing sternly back on his abashed ranks. "The Mayor of Troy", Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

• Awe- stricken, abashed suddenly overwhelmed with regret and shame, the natives silently drew back . "The Eternal Maiden", T. Everett Harré

• I can remember how abashed I used to be as a child when strangers or relatives, visiting us for the first time, after looking the rest of the children over, would ask, pointing to me, " That is not your boy- whose is he?" "My Boyhood", John Burroughs

• Then Sir Gawaine comforted his knights, and bade them not to be abashed for all shall be ours. "Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I (of II) King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table", Thomas Malory