Definition for A-BASH'

A-BASH', v.t. [Heb. and Ch. בוש bosh, to be confounded, or ashamed.]

To make the spirits to fail; to cast down the countenance; to make ashamed; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, error, inferiority, &c. They heard and were abashed. – Nitta.

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