transcription, транскрипция: [ ʃeɪm ]
( shames, shaming, shamed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
Shame is an uncomfortable feeling that you get when you have done something wrong or embarrassing, or when someone close to you has.
She felt a deep sense of shame...
I was, to my shame, a coward.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If someone brings shame on you, they make other people lose their respect for you.
I don’t want to bring shame on the family name...
= disgrace
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If something shames you, it causes you to feel shame.
Her son’s affair had humiliated and shamed her.
VERB : V n
4.
If you shame someone into doing something, you force them to do it by making them feel ashamed not to.
He would not let neighbours shame him into silence...
VERB : V n into/out of n / -ing
5.
If you say that something is a shame , you are expressing your regret about it and indicating that you wish it had happened differently.
It’s a crying shame that police have to put up with these mindless attacks...
N-SING : a N , oft it v-link N that [ feelings ]
6.
You can use shame in expressions such as shame on you and shame on him to indicate that someone ought to feel shame for something they have said or done.
He tried to deny it. Shame on him!
CONVENTION [ feelings ]
7.
If someone puts you to shame , they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do.
His playing really put me to shame.
PHRASE : V inflects