Difference between Abashed and Chagrined
What is the difference between Abashed and Chagrined?
Abashed as a verb is to make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. while Chagrined as a verb is to bother or vex; to mortify.
Abashed
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Embarrassed, disconcerted, or ashamed.
Chagrined
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To bother or vex; to mortify.
We hope you now know whether to use Abashed or Chagrined in your sentence.