(~s, shaming, ~d)
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 ~...
I was, to my ~, a coward.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If someone brings ~ on you, they make other people lose their respect for you.
I don’t want to bring ~ on the family name...
= disgrace
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If something ~s you, it causes you to feel ~.
Her son’s affair had humiliated and ~d her.
VERB: V n
4.
If you ~ someone into doing something, you force them to do it by making them feel a~d not to.
He would not let neighbours ~ him into silence...
VERB: V n into/out of n/-ing
5.
If you say that something is a ~, you are expressing your regret about it and indicating that you wish it had happened differently.
It’s a crying ~ 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 ~ in expressions such as ~ on you and ~ on him to indicate that someone ought to feel ~ for something they have said or done.
He tried to deny it. Shame on him!
CONVENTION feelings
7.
If someone puts you to ~, they make you feel a~d because they do something much better than you do.
His playing really put me to ~.
PHRASE: V inflects