SHAME

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English scamu; akin to Old High German scama ~ Date: before 12th century 1. a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety, the susceptibility to such emotion , a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute ; ignominy , 3. something that brings censure or reproach, a cause of feeling ~, II. transitive verb (~d; shaming) Date: 13th century to bring ~ to ; disgrace , to put to ~ by outdoing, to cause to feel ~, to force by causing to feel guilty