Usually means: Make others seem inferior, embarrassed.
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  1. put (someone or something) to shame, put to shame: Merriam-Webster
  2. put to shame: Collins English Dictionary
  3. put to shame: Wiktionary
  4. put to shame: Dictionary.com
  5. put to shame: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. put to shame: Legal dictionary

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  1. put to shame: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (put to shame)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To humiliate; to disgrace.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To outdo thoroughly; to surpass; to outperform; to show up.

Similar:
shame, humiliate, disgrace, beshame, dishonour, put to the blush, ashame, shend, embarrass, dedecorate, more...

Opposite:
praise, commend, applaud, laud, acclaim

Phrases:
to put to shame, more...

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Similar:
shame, humiliate, disgrace, beshame, dishonour, put to the blush, ashame, shend, embarrass, dedecorate, more...

Opposite:
praise, commend, applaud, laud, acclaim

Phrases:
to put to shame, more...



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