shame

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a state of dishonor

   One mistake brought shame to all their family.

2. 2
   verb

   compel through a sense of shame

   They shamed me into making amends.

3. 3
   noun

   An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.

   When I realized that I had hurt my friend, I felt deep shame.

4. 4
   noun

   Something to regret.

   It was a shame not to see the show after driving all that way.

5. 5
   noun

   Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.

   […] because ye haue borne the shame of the heathen,

6. 6
   noun

   The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.

   guides who are the shame of religion

7. 7
   noun

   That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.

   And he took fig-leaves and sewed (them) together, and made an apron for himself, and covered his shame.

8. 8
   noun

   The capacity to be ashamed, inhibiting one from brazen behaviour; due regard for one's own moral conduct and how one is perceived by others; restraint, moderation, decency.

   Don't you have any shame?

Etymology

From Middle English schamen, from Old English sċamian, from Proto-West Germanic *skamēn, from Proto-Germanic *skamāną. Cognates *Dutch schamen (“to be ashamed”) *German schämen (“to be ashamed or embarrassed, bashful”) *Danish, Norwegian Bokmål skamme (“to be ashamed”) *Icelandic skamma (“to scold”) *Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌽 (skaman, “to be ashamed”).