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English Dictionary: shamed by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shamed
adj
  1. showing a sense of guilt; "a guilty look"; "the hangdog and shamefaced air of the retreating enemy"- Eric Linklater
    Synonym(s): guilty, hangdog, shamefaced, shamed
  2. suffering shame
    Synonym(s): discredited, disgraced, dishonored, shamed
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shame \Shame\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shaming}.]
      1. To make ashamed; to excite in (a person) a comsciousness
            of guilt or impropriety, or of conduct derogatory to
            reputation; to put to shame.
  
                     Were there but one righteous in the world, he would
                     . . . shame the world, and not the world him.
                                                                              --South.
  
      2. To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to
            disgrace.
  
                     And with foul cowardice his carcass shame.
                                                                              --Spenser.
  
      3. To mock at; to deride. [Obs. or R.]
  
                     Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor. --Ps. xiv.
                                                                              6.

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Shamed, destroying; wearing out
  
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