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{ "term": "shame", "partOfSpeech": "noun", "ox3000": true, "cefr": "b2", "definitions": [ { "senseNumber": 1, "definition": "used to say that something is a cause for feeling sad or disappointed", "sensetop": "shame (that)…shame about somebody/somethingshame about somebody/something doing somethingshame to do somethingshame for somebody/something to do something", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "She's retiring because of ill health, which is **a great shame**." }, { "text": "What happened was a real shame." }, { "text": "**It's a shame** that she wasn't here to see it.", "contextForm": "shame (that)…" }, { "text": "Shame they didn't think of that earlier." }, { "text": "It’s a shame (that) you didn’t say something sooner." }, { "text": "**What a shame** they couldn't come." }, { "text": "It's a shame about Tim, isn't it?", "contextForm": "shame about somebody/something" }, { "text": "It's a terrible shame about Stuart losing his job, isn't it?", "contextForm": "shame about somebody/something doing something" }, { "text": "It's a shame to see her wasting her talent like this.", "contextForm": "shame to do something" }, { "text": "It'd be a shame for us to give up now.", "contextForm": "shame for somebody/something to do something" }, { "text": "It would be **a crying shame** *(= a great shame)* not to take them up on the offer." }, { "text": "It seems such a shame to throw perfectly good food away." }, { "text": "Shame they couldn't make it." }, { "text": "It is a national shame that our prisons serve as mental institutions." }, { "text": "It would be a shame for all the work that has been done to be wasted." } ], "synonyms": "pity", "collocations": { "adjective": ["awful", "great", "real"], "preposition": ["shame about"], "phrases": ["a bit of a shame", "rather a shame", "such a shame"] } }, { "senseNumber": 2, "definition": "the feelings of being sad, embarrassed or guilty that you have when you know that something you have done is wrong or stupid", "sensetop": "with shamein shameshame of somethingshame of doing somethingshame of somebody/something doing somethingshame at somethingshame at doing somethingshame for doing somethingshame for something", "cefr": "b2", "ox3000": true, "examples": [ { "text": "His face burned with shame.", "contextForm": "with shame" }, { "text": "They should blush with shame." }, { "text": "She hung her head in shame.", "contextForm": "in shame" }, { "text": "The king preferred death to the shame of defeat.", "contextForm": "shame of something" }, { "text": "It took me a while to get over the shame of not doing something to help him.", "contextForm": "shame of doing something" }, { "text": "He could not live with the shame of other people knowing the truth.", "contextForm": "shame of somebody/something doing something" }, { "text": "I felt a twinge of shame at the thought.", "contextForm": "shame at something" }, { "text": "She admitted her shame at having a parent in prison.", "contextForm": "shame at doing something" }, { "text": "He was filled with shame for giving in to his anger.", "contextForm": "shame for doing something" }, { "text": "She expressed her shame for her role in the whole unfortunate business.", "contextForm": "shame for something" }, { "text": "I would die of shame if she ever found out." }, { "text": "**To my shame** *(= I feel shame that)* I refused to listen to her side of the story." }, { "text": "Do you feel no shame for what you've done?" }, { "text": "He had cried noisily and without shame at the news of Esther's death." }, { "text": "Her pregnancy was no cause for shame." }, { "text": "She felt a flush of shame at what she'd done." }, { "text": "She wept from the shame of having let everyone down." }, { "text": "This is the secret shame I have carried around for decades." } ], "topics": ["Feelings"], "collocations": { "adjective": ["deep", "secret", "public"], "verb + shame": ["be filled with", "feel", "bring"], "preposition": ["from shame", "in shame", "to your shame"], "phrases": [ "bow your head in shame", "hang your head in shame", "a feeling of shame" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 3, "definition": "the ability to feel shame at something you have done", "sensetop": "without shame", "labels": "(formal)", "examples": [ { "text": "Have you no shame?" }, { "text": "That child is completely without shame!", "contextForm": "without shame" }, { "text": "She has no **sense of shame**." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["deep", "secret", "public"], "verb + shame": ["be filled with", "feel", "bring"], "preposition": ["from shame", "in shame", "to your shame"], "phrases": [ "bow your head in shame", "hang your head in shame", "a feeling of shame" ] } }, { "senseNumber": 4, "definition": "the loss of respect that is caused when you do something wrong or stupid", "labels": "(formal)", "examples": [ { "text": "There is **no shame in** wanting to be successful." }, { "text": "She felt that her failure would **bring shame on** her family." }, { "text": "He risked public shame and possible imprisonment." } ], "collocations": { "adjective": ["deep", "secret", "public"], "verb + shame": ["be filled with", "feel", "bring"], "preposition": ["from shame", "in shame", "to your shame"], "phrases": [ "bow your head in shame", "hang your head in shame", "a feeling of shame" ] } }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "to be much better than somebody/something", "examples": [ { "text": "Their presentation put ours to shame." }, { "text": "Her energy and enthusiasm puts the rest of us to shame *(= makes us feel embarrassed and guilty that we are not the same)*." } ] }, { "senseNumber": null, "definition": "used to say that somebody should feel ashamed for something they have said or done", "labels": "(informal)", "examples": [ { "text": "Shame on you for doubting me!" } ] } ], "pronunciations": { "uk": [ { "pronunciation": "/ʃeɪm/", "audio": "sh/shame/shame__gb_1.mp3" } ], "us": [ { "pronunciation": "/ʃeɪm/", "audio": "sh/shame/shame__us_1.mp3" } ] }, "wordOrigin": "Old English sc(e)amu (noun), sc(e)amian ‘feel shame’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schamen (verb) and German Scham (noun), schämen (verb)." }