ABASH', verb transitive [Heb. and Ch. bosh, to be confounded, or ashamed.] To make the spirits to fall; to cast down the countenance; to make ashamed; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, error, inferiority, _e. They heard and were abashed.
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