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shame
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English schame, from Old English s?amu, from Proto-Germanic *skam?.
Noun
shame (usually uncountable, plural shames)
- 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.
- Something to regret.
- 1977, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Shame
- And what you do to me is a shame.
- 1977, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Shame
- Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
- […] because ye haue borne the shame of the heathen,
- 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour
- And every woe a tear can claim / Except an erring sister's shame.
- The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
- guides who are the shame of religion
- That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
- 1611, KJV, Jubilees 3:22:
- And he took fig leaves and sewed them together and made an apron for himself. And he covered his shame.
- 1991, Martha Graham, Blood Memory, Washington Square Press
- She turns to lift her robe, and lays it across her as though she were revealing her shame, as though she were naked.
- 1611, KJV, Jubilees 3:22:
Synonyms
- (uncomfortable or painful feeling): dishonor
- (something regrettable): dishonor, humiliation, mortification, pity
- See also: Thesaurus:shame
Antonyms
- (uncomfortable or painful feeling): honor
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
shame
- A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
- 1982, "Telecommunications Bill", Hansard
- Mr John Golding: One would not realise that it came from the same Government, because in that letter the Under-Secretary states: "The future of BT's pension scheme is a commercial matter between BT, its workforce, and the trustees of the pensions scheme, and the Government cannot give any guarantees about future pension arrangements."
- Mr. Charles R. Morris: Shame.
- 1831, The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend
- [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever — (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "doust the liars")
- 1982, "Telecommunications Bill", Hansard
- (South Africa) Expressing sympathy.
- Shame, you poor thing, you must be cold!
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English schamen, from Old English s?amian, from Proto-West Germanic *skam?n, from Proto-Germanic *skam?n?.
Verb
shame (third-person singular simple present shames, present participle shaming, simple past and past participle shamed)
- (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
- Were there but one righteous in the world, he would […] shame the world, and not the world him.
- To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
- (transitive) To drive or compel by shame.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
- (obsolete, transitive) To mock at; to deride.
- Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
Synonyms
- (to cause to feel shame): demean, humiliate, insult, mortify
Antonyms
- (to cause to feel shame): honor, dignify
Derived terms
- ashamed
- beshame
- (sense: to cause to feel shame) creep-shame
- name and shame
Translations
References
- shame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Hames, Shema, ahems, haems, hames, heams
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smirch
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??(?)t?
Etymology 1
Attested since the 15th century; possibly from Old French esmorcher (“to torture”), from Latin morsus (“bitten”).
Noun
smirch (countable and uncountable, plural smirches)
- Dirt, or a stain.
- 1998, Michael Foss, People of the First Crusade, page 6, ?ISBN.
- Too often, in the years between 800 and 1050, the everyday sun declined through the smirch of flame and smoke of a monastery or town robbed and burnt.
- 1998, Michael Foss, People of the First Crusade, page 6, ?ISBN.
- (figuratively) A stain on somebody's reputation.
- 2008, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, page 33, ?ISBN.
- there were some business transactions which savored of dangerous speculation, if not dishonesty; and around it all lay the smirch of the Freedmen's Bank.
- 2008, W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, page 33, ?ISBN.
Verb
smirch (third-person singular simple present smirches, present participle smirching, simple past and past participle smirched)
- (transitive) To dirty; to make dirty.
- Synonyms: besmirch, soil
- 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I Scene III, lines 101-04
- CELIA. I'll put myself in poor and mean attire,
- And with a kind of umber smirch my face;
- The like do you; so shall we pass along,
- And never stir assailants.
- (transitive, figuratively) To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
- Synonym: besmirch
Derived terms
- besmirch
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “smirch”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Etymology 2
Meld of smear and chirp
Noun
smirch (plural smirches)
- A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
- 2003, B. S. Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz, "Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes", Classical and Quantum Gravity, volume 20, no. 10
- The strain h(t) produced by a smirch in LISA is given by h(t) = ?-A(t)cos[(t) + ?(t)]
- 2005, John M. T. Thompson, Advances in Astronomy: From the Big Bang to the Solar System, page 133, ?ISBN.
- By observing a smirch, LISA offers a unique opportunity to directly map the spacetime geometry around the central object and test whether or not this structure is in accordance with the expectations of general realtivity.
- 2003, B. S. Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz, "Templates for stellar mass black holes falling into supermassive black holes", Classical and Quantum Gravity, volume 20, no. 10
Anagrams
- chirms, chrism
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