The word 'abash' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a verb meaning to make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed. For example, "The student was abashed by the professor's critical review of her presentation."
Wilson, by his account, fired four separate volleys of bullets, but found that the first three of them did nothing to abash Brown; in his telling, they seemed almost to excite him.
Even out of date, his conscientious integrity ought to abash today's hordes of careering youngsters, whose idea of the future of civilization reaches little beyond the next art fair.
The fact that Stanton has never banked with Barclays and has spent many years telling them so does not abash them in the slightest.
The Vory V Zakone mob have an intense, almost mystical reverence for tattoos: fierce, ugly symbols intended to abash and horrify those outside the brotherhood, and perhaps do exactly the same thing, only more intensely, to those inside.
Such carriages were designed not only to free the traveller from the discomfort of public transport but also to display wealth, status, technological superiority and, as John Ruskin put it, to achieve "the abashing of plebeian beholders".
Abashed by his fame, perhaps, he was refusing to meet with reporters.
Abashed, Macmillan found it in a vault and, insuring it for $1,000, sent it all back, or so everyone believed until just recently.
But the puffery on most anniversary specials is mild, perhaps because there is something humbling about Katrina that abashes even the most egotistical personalities.
The moral, abashing if not shaming, was that in the halls where once real men had roamed, or drank in peaceable closets, now mere jacket-fanciers wandered.
Abashed by the number of images of herself – photographs and caricatures decorate the walls – she explains that she doesn't have "elephantiasis of the ego" and keeps them here to avoid a more ostentatious display elsewhere.
Abashed at thinking about who is up and who is down at such a sensitive time, Mr. Harrison offered a prediction: "When he comes back, it could be like David Letterman after his heart bypass.
