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# shame

«shame» in Mova's school dictionary: **the bad, hot feeling you have when you know you did…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (shame, uncountable; a shame); verb (shame, shames, shamed, shaming)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Shame is the bad, hot feeling you have when you know you did something wrong or silly and others may know. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#m1)

2) «It's a shame» or «what a shame» means it is sad or a pity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#m2)

3) To shame someone is to make them feel bad or embarrassed, often in front of others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#m3)

4) «Shame on you» is a way of telling someone they behaved badly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories about feelings, a character feels shame after lying or cheating and wants to hide; owning up often makes shame go away. In everyday talk «It's a shame» just means «that's sad»: «It's a shame it rained». In safety and kindness lessons: we should not shame others, and a child who is hurt or tricked has nothing to be ashamed of.

### examples

- He felt shame when he saw the vase he had broken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#x1)
- It's a shame you can't come to the party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#x2)
- What a shame the zoo was closed! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#x3)
- Shame on you for teasing your little brother! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#x4)
- She hung her head in shame. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#x5)
- Making fun of someone to shame them is unkind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#x6)
- There is no shame in asking for help. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#x7)
- His good mark shamed the others into working harder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#x8)
- Oh, I shall die of shame and despair!’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shame/#x9)

### note

Shame is usually uncountable as a feeling («full of shame»), but «a shame» means a pity. The adjective is «ashamed» (I am ashamed), not «shamed». «Shameful» means very bad; «shameless» means without shame. Shame is different from «embarrassment», which can be about small accidents that are not wrong.

### In the corpora

- [Some families use a food bank for a while, which is help, not shame.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/3/)
- [Parents and carers use soft words about children's bad behaviour so they do not sound cross or shame the child in public.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/0/)
- [Shame again, and a second confession.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/339-borrowing-without-asking/7/)
- [The shame was heavy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/342-breaking-things-and-hiding-the-pieces/8/)
- [When parents are called to school, it is to solve a problem together, not to shame the child.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/363-group-chat-laughs-fake-profiles-passwords-and-game-skins/23/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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