Usually means: Make others seem inferior, embarrassed.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. put (someone or something) to shame, put to shame: Merriam-Webster
  2. put to shame: Collins English Dictionary
  3. put to shame: Wiktionary
  4. put to shame: Dictionary.com
  5. put to shame: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put to shame: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. put to shame: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (put to shame)

verb:  (transitive) To humiliate; to disgrace.
verb:  (transitive) To outdo thoroughly; to surpass; to outperform; to show up.

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