# shame, shameful, ashamed

## Definition

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.

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