Word Meanings - ABASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton.

Additional info about word: ABASH

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay. Syn. -- To confuse; confound; disconcert; shame. -- To Abash, Confuse, Confound. Abash is a stronger word than confuse, but not so strong as confound. We are abashed when struck either with sudden shame or with a humbling sense of inferiority; as, Peter was abashed in the presence of those who are greatly his superiors. We are confused when, from some unexpected or startling occurrence, we lose clearness of thought and self-possession. Thus, a witness is often confused by a severe cross-examination; a timid person is apt to be confused in entering a room full of strangers. We are confounded when our minds are overwhelmed, as it were, by something wholly unexpected, amazing, dreadful, etc., so that we have nothing to say. Thus, a criminal is usually confounded at the discovery of his guilt. Satan stood Awhile as mute, confounded what to say. Milton. (more info) astonish, fr. L. ex + the interjection bah, expressing astonishment.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ABASH)

• Confound
• Confuse
• disorder
• trouble
• disarrange
• intermix
• abash
• astound
• mystify
• obscure
• stupefy
• disconcert
• mix
• blend
• intermingle
• perplex
• discompose
• Cow Frighten
• intimidate
• oppress
• brow-bent
• Mortify
• Deaden
• subdue
• master
• vex
• disappoint
• annoy
• rot
• fester
• humble
• chagrin
• displace
• putrefy

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ABASH)

• Reveal
• make known
• discover
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• please
• soothe
• delight
• gratify
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to ABASH)

• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• OBSCURENESS
  Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
• FESTERMENT
  A festering. Chalmers.
• OBSCURER
  One who, or that which, obscures.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• INTERMINGLE
  To mingle or mix together; to intermix. Hooker.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• BLEND
  akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, 1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse;
• ABASHMENT
  The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
• PERPLEX
  1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• HUMBLE
  humilis on the ground, low, fr. humus the earth, ground. See Homage, 1. Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley. 2. Thinking
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• ENTERTAINER
  One who entertains.
• BLENDER
  One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• UNPERPLEX
  To free from perplexity. Donne.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• CALABASH
  Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• SQUABASH
  To crush; to quash; to squash. Sir W. Scott.
• SUBOBSCURELY
  Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.