ashame
/əˈʃeɪm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.54 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Ashame thou, Sidon, seith the se, the strengthe of the se, seiende, I trauailide not with child, and bar not, and nurshede not out ȝung childer, ne to ful waxing broȝte forth maidenes."
- "I am young Woman indifferently well brought up in the Country, and might raiſe my fortune conſiderably had I not got ſuch a Habit of Sweating, which quite aſhames me, when in Company, to ſee my Face of a dewy Sweat, and the generality complain of Cold."
- "The notice annoyed and ashamed him."
- "If it is one Minister who has done it he has ashamed us all and the title "Minister" will not be respected anymore."
- "They would think that I had abandoned them, that I could not handle the stress and pressure and this ashamed me immensely."
- "“As a nation, our head is bloodied but unbowed,” Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said in a televised address, declaring three days of mourning. “We have ashamed and defeated our attackers.”"
Etymology
From Old English āsċamian, from ā- + sċamian (“feel shame”), from Proto-Germanic *skamēnan, from *skamō (“shame, humiliation”).
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: āsċamian, *skamēnan