ashame/əˈʃeɪm/EtymologyFrom Old English āsċamian, from ā- + sċamian (“feel shame”), from Proto-Germanic *skamēnan, from *skamō (“shame, humiliation”).ashame means to feel shame; to be ashamed. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.ashame is pronounced /əˈʃeɪm/.verbTo feel shame; to be ashamed.“Ashame thou, Sidon, seith the se, the strengthe of the se, seiende, I trauailide not with child, and bar not, and nurshede not out ȝung childer, ne to ful waxing broȝte forth maidenes.”To make ashamed; to shame.“I am young Woman indifferently well brought up in the Country, and might raiſe my fortune conſiderably had I not got ſuch a Habit of Sweating, which quite aſhames me, when in Company, to ſee my Face of a dewy Sweat, and the generality complain of Cold.”