different between shame vs pollute
shame
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?e?m/
- Rhymes: -e?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English schame, from Old English s?amu, from Proto-Germanic *skam?.
Noun
shame (usually uncountable, plural shames)
- Uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
- Something to regret.
- 1977, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Shame
- And what you do to me is a shame.
- 1977, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Shame
- Reproach incurred or suffered; dishonour; ignominy; derision.
- […] because ye haue borne the shame of the heathen,
- 1813, Lord Byron, The Giaour
- And every woe a tear can claim / Except an erring sister's shame.
- The cause or reason of shame; that which brings reproach and ignominy.
- guides who are the shame of religion
- That which is shameful and private, especially private parts.
- 1611, KJV, Jubilees 3:22:
- And he took fig leaves and sewed them together and made an apron for himself. And he covered his shame.
- 1991, Martha Graham, Blood Memory, Washington Square Press
- She turns to lift her robe, and lays it across her as though she were revealing her shame, as though she were naked.
- 1611, KJV, Jubilees 3:22:
Synonyms
- (uncomfortable or painful feeling): dishonor
- (something regrettable): dishonor, humiliation, mortification, pity
- See also: Thesaurus:shame
Antonyms
- (uncomfortable or painful feeling): honor
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
shame
- A cry of admonition for the subject of a speech, either to denounce the speaker or to agree with the speaker's denunciation of some person or matter; often used reduplicated, especially in political debates.
- 1982, "Telecommunications Bill", Hansard
- Mr John Golding: One would not realise that it came from the same Government, because in that letter the Under-Secretary states: "The future of BT's pension scheme is a commercial matter between BT, its workforce, and the trustees of the pensions scheme, and the Government cannot give any guarantees about future pension arrangements."
- Mr. Charles R. Morris: Shame.
- 1831, The Bristol Job Nott; or, Labouring Man's Friend
- [...] the Duke of Dorset charged in the list with "not known, but supposed forty thousand per year" (charitable supposition) had when formerly in office only about 3 or £4,000, and has not now, nor when the black list was printed, any office whatever — (Much tumult, and cries of "shame" and "doust the liars")
- 1982, "Telecommunications Bill", Hansard
- (South Africa) Expressing sympathy.
- Shame, you poor thing, you must be cold!
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English schamen, from Old English s?amian, from Proto-West Germanic *skam?n, from Proto-Germanic *skam?n?.
Verb
shame (third-person singular simple present shames, present participle shaming, simple past and past participle shamed)
- (transitive) To cause to feel shame.
- Were there but one righteous in the world, he would […] shame the world, and not the world him.
- To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace.
- (transitive) To drive or compel by shame.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To feel shame, be ashamed.
- (obsolete, transitive) To mock at; to deride.
- Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
Synonyms
- (to cause to feel shame): demean, humiliate, insult, mortify
Antonyms
- (to cause to feel shame): honor, dignify
Derived terms
- ashamed
- beshame
- (sense: to cause to feel shame) creep-shame
- name and shame
Translations
References
- shame in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Hames, Shema, ahems, haems, hames, heams
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pollute
English
Etymology
From Middle English polluten, from Latin poll?tum, from poll?tus (“no longer virgin", "unchaste”), perfect passive participle of pollu? (“soil", "defile", "dishonor”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??lu?t/, /p??lju?t/
- Rhymes: -u?t
Verb
pollute (third-person singular simple present pollutes, present participle polluting, simple past and past participle polluted)
- (transitive) To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
- (transitive) To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.
- (dated) To corrupt or profane
- 1952, Bible (Revised Standard Version, Revelation 21:8
- But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.
- 1952, Bible (Revised Standard Version, Revelation 21:8
- To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.
Derived terms
- polluter
- self-pollute
Related terms
- pollutant
- pollution
Translations
Adjective
pollute (comparative more pollute, superlative most pollute)
- (rare) Polluted; defiled.
Translations
References
- pollute in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Latin
Participle
poll?te
- vocative masculine singular of poll?tus
Middle English
Verb
pollute
- Alternative form of polluten
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