Definition of "abashing" in Englisch

adjective

1. Tending to abash; causing embarrassment or the loss of self-possession.

   • 1814, Frances Burney, The Wanderer, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Volume 1, Chapter 9, p. 166, […] the mixt party there assembled, was prepared to survey her with a curiosity which she found extremely abashing.

verb

1. present participle and gerund of abash