Definition/Meaning of shame

• English - Noun: shame (usually uncountable, plural shames) (uncountable, usually) An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor , or something being expose d that should have been kept private . When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame . The teenager couldn’t bear the shame of introducing his parents. (uncountable, usually)…
• English - Interjection: shame A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated , especially in political debates. 1831, The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend: […] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had…
• English - Adjective: shame (comparative more shame, superlative most shame) (Australian) Embarrassed and shy , particularly because one is the subject of attention. 1998, Robyn Lynn, Rosamund Thorpe, Debra Miles with Christine Cutts, Anne Butcher, Linda Ford, 'Murri way!': Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders reconstruct social welfare practice, Centre for Social Research, →ISBN, page 47: She says that she doesn't…
• English - Verb: shame (third-person singular simple present shames, present participle shaming, simple past and past participle shamed) (transitive) To cause to feel shame. I was shamed by the teacher's public disapproval. 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Were there but one righteous in the world, he would[…] shame the…
• English - References: shame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , G . & C . Merriam, 1913 ↑ 1 . 0 1 . 1 1 . 2 Gerhard Köbler, Altenglisches Wörterbuch , entry "scamu"