◇상황
어떤 이유로 창피스러워지는 상황
◇의미
to cause another person to feel embarrassed or ashamed
to destroy self-confidence and composure.
◇예문
▪He was abashed at his own ignorance
▪He was not at all abashed by her open admiration.
◇발음
ash cash abash 모두 ash로 유사 발음
◇유의어
confound, discomfit, disconcert, discompose, nonplus
◇반의어
encourage, calm
▶confound
주로 A와 B를 혼동 할 때 confound 가 사용된다.
즉 카페라떼와 카푸치노를 혼동하는 것과 같은 상황에 사용된다.
1)confuse : confound means with end
2)abash : He was confouned at the sight of the teacher.
3)frustrate : to confound a plot
4)make worse :
▶discomfit = disconcert = discompose = nonplus
▪This ruse(계략) will discomfit the enemy.
▪The lawyer was disconcerted by the evidence produced by her adversary.
▪Taught by former experience, I was not to be discomposed now.
▪The principal was at a nonplus.
※단어정리
abash discomfit discompose disconcert nonplus confound
ruse