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单词 abashed
释义
abasheda‧bashed /əˈbæʃt/ adjective [not before noun] written Word Origin
WORD ORIGINabashed
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French abair ‘to surprise greatly’, from esbair, from baer ‘to have the mouth wide open’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Both girls fixed their eyes on the ground, abashed.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Amazed and abashed she stole back to her chamber.
  • At Tsu Ma's toast, however, she looked down sharply, as if abashed.
  • He mumbled unintelligibly and looked abashed.
  • If so, I am not abashed.
  • They sat around and listened with abashed smiles as Carlo Marx read them his apocalyptic, mad poetry.
  • When she came to the river the horse was standing there, head hung as if abashed.
embarrassed or ashamed because you have done something wrong or stupid SYN  shamefaced:  She looked rather abashed.
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