{
    "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)."
}