Usually means: Making someone feel embarrassed, ashamed.
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  1. abashing: Merriam-Webster
  2. abashing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. abashing: Vocabulary.com
  4. abashing: Wordnik
  5. abashing: Wiktionary
  6. Abashing, abashing: Dictionary.com
  7. Abashing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Abashing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. abashing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. abashing: FreeDictionary.org
  11. abashing: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. abashing: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Tending to abash; causing embarrassment or the loss of self-possession.

Similar:
embarrass, discomfiting, abased, abative, demeaning, scundered, demissionary, humiliative, debased, self-deprecatory, more...

Opposite:
embolden, encourage, empower, strengthen, inspire

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Similar:
embarrass, discomfiting, abased, abative, demeaning, scundered, demissionary, humiliative, debased, self-deprecatory, more...

Opposite:
embolden, encourage, empower, strengthen, inspire



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