what is abash

abash 

verb 
make (somebody) feel humiliated, perturbed, or embarrassed. 
"Harriet looked somewhat abashed" 
These guardians are abashed by their kid's conduct. Abash is characterized as to make somebody feel humiliated or apprehensive. A kid's hissy fit is a case of something that would abash a parent. 
Abash signifies "liable to humiliate somebody, or make them feel repulsively hesitant or embarrassed". 
You'll need to take your grandma to a motion picture not liable to abash… that is, an element without solid dialect or realistic sexual delineations. 
Curiously, you regularly observe this word today as "unabashed", which signifies "feeling no disgrace, humiliation or remorse", and it frequently is utilized to depict the indecent boldness and chutzpah of individuals. 
The stone team Milli Vanilli had the unabashed irk to guarantee that they had done the singing on their collection, when it was later uncovered that they had done no singing on it: the vocals were recorded by different artists. 
In the 1960's, PLAYBOY was celebrated for discharging cites from its purported "unabashed lexicon"; these were phrases they submitted which effortlessly 
could be taken to have a sexual importance. 
The present adolescents are unabashed by delineations of sexuality in the motion pictures.
Abash signifies "to cause to feel nervous, humiliated or befuddled". (Collins English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged).
The word 'abash' is normally utilized in the previous tense - and in the detached and is transitive. 
Precedent : Martin left the workplace, abashed that he hadn't known the response to the foremost's inquiry". 
"There's no compelling reason to feel abashed basically in light of the fact that you wore pants to the supper - nobody revealed to you that it was a formal event!" 

History and Etymology for abash 

Center English abaissen, abaschen "to lose one's poise," acquired from Anglo-French abaiss-, stem of abair "to open wide, expand, be astounded," change (by prefix substitution) of esbaer (Continental Old French esbahir), from es-"out" (returning to Latin ex-) + baer "to open wide, expand," returning to Vulgar Latin *batare — more at 
History and Etymology for abash 
Center English abaissen, abaschen "to lose one's poise," acquired from Anglo-French abaiss-, stem of abair "to open wide, expand, be astounded," change (by prefix substitution) of esbaer (Continental Old French esbahir), from es-"out" (returning to Latin ex-) + baer "to open wide, expand," returning to Vulgar Latin *batare — more at