1. (

• dishonor ,
• disgrace ,
• dishonour ,
• attaint ,
• shame

) bring shame or dishonor upon; "he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime" ;

2. (

• shame ,

) compel through a sense of shame; "She shamed him into making amends" ;

3. (

• shame

) cause to be ashamed ;

4. (

• shame

) surpass or beat by a wide margin ;

1. (

• assumed ,
• false ,
• fictitious ,
• fictive ,
• pretended ,
• put_on ,
• sham

) adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" ;