Shame is an uncomfortable feeling that you get when you have done something wrong or embarrassing, or when someone close to you has. She felt a deep sense of shame I was, to my shame, a coward
If someone puts you to shame, they make you feel ashamed because they do something much better than you do. His playing really put me to shame
A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of that which nature or modesty prompts us to conceal
If you shame someone into doing something, you force them to do it by making them feel ashamed not to. He would not let neighbours shame him into silence
If something shames you, it causes you to feel shame. Her son's affair had humiliated and shamed her
Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of impropriety, dishonor or other wrong in the opinion of the person experiencing the feeling. It is caused by awareness of exposure of circumstances of unworthiness or of improper or indecent conduct
surpass or beat by a wide margin cause to be ashamed compel through a sense of shame; "She shamed him into making amends
bring shame or dishonor upon; "he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime"
a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"