shame

[ʃeim] 1. noun

1) ((often with at) an unpleasant feeling caused by awareness of guilt, fault, foolishness or failure: I was full of shame at my rudeness; He felt no shame at his behaviour.) sram

2) (dishonour or disgrace: The news that he had accepted bribes brought shame on his whole family.) sramota

3) ((with a) a cause of disgrace or a matter for blame: It's a shame to treat a child so cruelly.) sramota

4) ((with a) a pity: What a shame that he didn't get the job!) škoda

2. verb

1) ((often with into) to force or persuade to do something by making ashamed: He was shamed into paying his share.) prisiliti

2) (to cause to have a feeling of shame: His cowardice shamed his parents.) osramotiti

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- shameful

- shamefully
- shamefulness
- shameless
- shamelessly
- shamelessness
- shamefaced
- put to shame
- to my
- his shame

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I [šéim]

noun

sram, sramežljivost; sramota, nečast

from shame of — iz sramu pred

shame!, for shame! — sramota!

for shame!, shame on you! — fej!, sram te bodi!

what a shame! — kakšna sramota!

the shame of it! — o ta sramota!

more shame to him! — še bolj sramotno zanj!

a burning shame — velika sramota

he is a shame to his family — on je v sramoto svoji družini

he is quite without shame — nobenega sramu ne pozna

he blushed with shame — zardel je od sramu

to bring shame on s.o. — nakopati sramoto komu

to bring shame on o.s. — osramotiti se, nakopati si sramoto

to cry shame upon s.o. — zmerjati koga, biti ogorčen nad kom

they all cried shame upon (on) him — vsi so zagnali krik in vik proti njemu

to die with shame — umreti, v zemljo se vdreti od sramu

to have no sense of shame — nobenega sramu ne poznati

to have lost all shame, to be lost to shame — nobenega sramu ne več poznati

to put s.o. to shame — osramotiti koga

I take shame to say — sram me je reči

I would think shame to do it — sram bi me bilo storiti kaj takega

II [šéim]

transitive verb

spraviti v sramoto, osramotiti; nakopati, napraviti sramoto (komu); figuratively zasenčiti, prekositi

to shame the devil — povedati resnico; intransitive verb archaic dialectal sramovati se

he shamed not to say — ni ga bilo sram reči