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# abashed

«abashed» in Mova's school dictionary: **embarrassed and feeling small, because you have been…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (abashed)

### meaning for a pupil

Abashed means embarrassed and feeling small, because you have been shamed or made to look foolish in front of others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abashed/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a hero or heroine who feels shame and looks down after being laughed at or praised in public

### examples

- He stood abashed when the teacher praised him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abashed/#x1)
- She felt abashed when everyone laughed at her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abashed/#x2)
- The little boy looked abashed and said sorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abashed/#x3)
- I was abashed by my own mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abashed/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [They looked unto Him, and were radiant; and their faces shall never be abashed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.511/)
- [Let them be ashamed and affrighted for ever; yea, let them be abashed and perish;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1481/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abashed» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/abashed/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.