To fill with shame; to cause someone to feel embarrassed or ashamed about something.
From a- (to/into) plus shame, literally 'to put into shame.' An archaic or poetic verb form.
This old verb form appears in historical literature—'to ashame' sounds lyrical, like something from Shakespeare, and shows how English has slowly lost these a- prefix verbs over centuries!
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