Definition of "ashame" in English

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To feel shame; to be ashamed.

2. (transitive, rare) To make ashamed; to shame.

   • I am young Woman indifferently well brought up in the Country, and might raiſe my fortune conſiderably had I not got ſuch a Habit of Sweating, which quite aſhames me, when in Company, to ſee my Face of a dewy Sweat, and the generality complain of Cold.