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# shame, shameful, ashamed
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## Definition
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Shame is when a person has a painful feeling of being disgraced because of something dishonorable or improper that he or someone else has done.
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* Something that is "shameful" is "improper" or "dishonorable."
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* The term "ashamed" describes how a person feels when he has done something shameful.
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* The phrase "put to shame" means to defeat people or expose their sin so that they feel ashamed of themselves.
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* The prophet Isaiah said that those who make and worship idols will be put to shame.
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* God can bring shame to a person who does not repent, by exposing that person's sin and causing him to be humiliated.
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