put+to+shame

  • 131unfrock — Synonyms and related words: boot, bounce, break, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bump, bust, can, cashier, cast reproach upon, debase, deconsecrate, defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, dethrone, disbar,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 132ashamed — [OE] Ashamed is an Old English compound, formed ultimately from the noun scamu ‘shame’. The verb derived from this, scamian, meant ‘feel shame’ as well as (as in modern English) ‘put to shame’, and in this sense the intensive prefix ā was added… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins