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▸ noun:  An 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.
▸ noun:  Something to regret.
▸ noun:  Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
▸ noun:  The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
▸ noun:  That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
▸ noun:  The capacity to be ashamed, inhibiting one from brazen behaviour; due regard for one's own moral conduct and how one is perceived by others; restraint, moderation, decency.
▸ adjective:  (Australian Aboriginal) Feeling shame; ashamed.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To denounce as having done something shameful; to criticize with the intent or effect of causing a feeling of shame.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To drive or compel by shame.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To mock at; to deride.

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