Usually means: Painful feeling of humiliation, guilt.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. shame: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shame, shame: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shame: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shame: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shame: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shame, shame: Wordnik
  7. shame: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shame: Wiktionary
  9. shame: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shame: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shame: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shame: Dictionary.com
  13. shame (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shame: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Shame: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shame: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shame: Rhymezone
  19. shame: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shame: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. shame: Free Dictionary
  22. shame: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. shame: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. shame: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. shame: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shame: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHAME: Acronym Finder
  2. shame: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shame: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See shamed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.
noun:  Something to regret.
noun:  Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
noun:  The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
noun:  That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
noun:  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.
adjective:  (Australian Aboriginal) Feeling shame; ashamed.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
verb:  (transitive) To denounce as having done something shameful; to criticize with the intent or effect of causing a feeling of shame.
verb:  (transitive) To drive or compel by shame.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To mock at; to deride.

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