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Shame or disgrace.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK, countable, uncountable
Examples
- You have brought dishonour upon the family.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: humiliation, ignominy, unhonour, abasement, disgrace, dishonour, embarrassment, hurt, mortification, obloquy, opprobrium, shame
Antonyms: none provided
Lack of honour or integrity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK, countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: indecency, unhonour, unrighteousness, dishonour, immorality, improbity, impropriety, undecency, ungodliness, unprobity, unpropriety, unrightfulness, unsaintliness, unseemliness, unuprightness, unvirtuousness, wickedness
Antonyms: none provided
Failure or refusal of the drawee or intended acceptor of a negotiable instrument, such as a bill of exchange or note, to accept it or, if it is accepted, to pay and retire it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK, countable, uncountable
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To bring disgrace upon someone or something; to shame.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK
Examples
- You have dishonoured the family.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: discomfit, humiliate, mortify, abase, abash, bring low, confuse, confound, debase, degrade, demean, depress, disconcert, dishonour, embarrass, humble, lower, put to shame, shame
Antonyms: none provided
To refuse to accept something, such as a cheque; to not honor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
To violate or rape.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, South-Africa, UK
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: defoul, outrage, ravish, abuse, constuprate, defile, dishonour, force, misuse, oppress, pollute, rape, ravage, r-word, scotch, turn out, violate, viole, vitiate, grape
Antonyms: none provided
lacking honor or integrity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dishonor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unrighteousness
a state of shame or disgrace
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he was resigned to a life of dishonor
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dishonor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: standing
Narrower terms: disesteem, disrepute, discredit, corruptness, shame, disgrace, ignominy, infamy, opprobrium
refuse to accept
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- dishonor checks and drafts
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dishonor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline
bring shame or dishonor upon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dishonor, disgrace, attaint, shame
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: foul, befoul, defile, maculate
force (someone) to have sex against their will
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The woman was raped on her way home at night
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, outrage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: assail, assault, set on, attack
Narrower terms: gang-rape
From Old French deshonor, equivalent to dis- + honour.
Across languages
Translations
84 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Bengali:
অসম্মান
(ośomman)
— shame or disgrace
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Bengali:
জিল্লত
(jillot)
— shame or disgrace
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Bulgarian:
срам
(sram)
— shame or disgrace
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Bulgarian:
позор
(pozor)
— shame or disgrace
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Catalan:
deshonor
— shame or disgrace
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Catalan:
deshonra
— shame or disgrace
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Esperanto:
malhonoro
— shame or disgrace
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Finnish:
häpeä
— shame or disgrace
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French:
déshonneur
— shame or disgrace
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Old French:
desonor
— shame or disgrace
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German:
Schande
— shame or disgrace
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Gothic:
𐌿𐌽𐍃𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌹𐌸𐌰
(unswēriþa)
— shame or disgrace
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Ancient Greek:
ἀτιμία
(atimía)
— shame or disgrace
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Ancient Greek:
αἶσχος
(aîskhos)
— shame or disgrace
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Ido:
deshonoro
— shame or disgrace
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Italian:
disonore
— shame or disgrace
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Latin:
ignominia
— shame or disgrace
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Malayalam:
മാനക്കേട്
(mānakkēṭŭ)
— shame or disgrace
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Māori:
kaipirau
— shame or disgrace
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Māori:
hōnorekore
— shame or disgrace
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Norwegian:
skam
— shame or disgrace
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Norwegian:
vanære
— shame or disgrace
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Old Occitan:
deshonor
— shame or disgrace
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Old English:
ǣwisċ
— shame or disgrace
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Old Norse:
vanheiðr
— shame or disgrace
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Persian:
ننگ
(nang)
— shame or disgrace
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Plautdietsch:
Oniea
— shame or disgrace
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Plautdietsch:
Plautdietsch: Schaund
— shame or disgrace
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Polish:
hańba
— shame or disgrace
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Polish:
dyshonor
— shame or disgrace
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Polish:
niehonor
— shame or disgrace
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Portuguese:
desonra
— shame or disgrace
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Russian:
позо́р
(pozór)
— shame or disgrace
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Russian:
бесче́стие
(besčéstije)
— shame or disgrace
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Russian:
срам
(sram)
— shame or disgrace
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Sanskrit:
विमान
(vimāna)
— shame or disgrace
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Serbo-Croatian:
бешчашће
— shame or disgrace
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Serbo-Croatian:
beščašće
— shame or disgrace
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Spanish:
desdoro
— shame or disgrace
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Spanish:
deshonor
— shame or disgrace
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Spanish:
deshonra
— shame or disgrace
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Swedish:
vanheder
— shame or disgrace
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Tamil:
களங்கம்
(kaḷaṅkam)
— shame or disgrace
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Tamil:
அவமானம்
(avamāṉam)
— shame or disgrace
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Ottoman Turkish:
محجوبلق
(mahcubluk)
— shame or disgrace
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Ottoman Turkish:
رذالت
(rezâlet)
— shame or disgrace
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Ukrainian:
безче́стя
(bezčéstja)
— shame or disgrace
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Ukrainian:
ганьба́
(hanʹbá)
— shame or disgrace
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Bulgarian:
безсрамие
(bezsramie)
— lack of honour or integrity
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Finnish:
kunniattomuus
— lack of honour or integrity
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Māori:
hōnorekore
— lack of honour or integrity
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Bulgarian:
позоря
(pozorja)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Catalan:
deshonorar
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Catalan:
deshonrar
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Ngazidja Comorian:
hwaiɓisha
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Czech:
zostudit
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Esperanto:
malhonorigi
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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French:
déshonorer
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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German:
schänden
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Gothic:
𐌲𐌰𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌺𐍉𐌽
(gaaiwiskōn)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Gothic:
𐌿𐌽𐍃𐍅𐌴𐍂𐌰𐌽
(unswēran)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Ancient Greek:
ἀτιμάω
(atimáō)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Ancient Greek:
ἀτιμάζω
(atimázō)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Ancient Greek:
αἰσχύνω
(aiskhúnō)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Ido:
deshonoro
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Ingrian:
hävätä
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Italian:
disonorare
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Latin:
dehonestō
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Māori:
whakahōnorekore
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Māori:
kaipirau
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Portuguese:
desonrar
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Russian:
бесче́стить
(besčéstitʹ)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Russian:
обесче́стить
(obesčéstitʹ)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Russian:
позо́рить
(pozóritʹ)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Russian:
опозо́рить
(opozóritʹ)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Russian:
срами́ть
(sramítʹ)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Russian:
осрами́ть
(osramítʹ)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Serbo-Croatian:
обешчашћивати
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Serbo-Croatian:
obeščašćivati
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Spanish:
deshonrar
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Spanish:
deshonorar
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Spanish:
dejemplar
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Swedish:
vanhedra
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
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Telugu:
అవమానించు
(avamāniñcu)
— to bring disgrace upon someone or something
