How to pronounce “shame”

Meaning

• [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.
• Something to regret.
• Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
• The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
• That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
• 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.
• [Interjection]
• A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
• Ellipsis of what a shame; expressing disappointment or sympathy
• [Adjective]
• (Australian Aboriginal) Feeling shame; ashamed.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
• (transitive) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
• (transitive) To denounce as having done something shameful; to criticize with the intent or effect of causing a feeling of shame.
• (transitive) To drive or compel by shame.
• (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
• (obsolete, transitive) To mock at; to deride.

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