See Also: Virgin Birth(encyclopedia)
virgin birth(dictionary)
shame(1)(dictionary)
shame(medicine)
shame(2)(dictionary)
shame 1, noun(dictionary)
shame 2, verb(dictionary)
birth(1)(dictionary)
birth(2)(dictionary)
BIRTH(law)

shame 2, verb (oh) and virgin birth (oh)


shame 2, verb (oh)



2 v [T]
to make someone feel ashamed
::It shames me to say it, but I lied.
::He felt shamed and humiliated by the treatment he had received.
shame sb into doing sth
to force someone to do something by making them feel ashamed
::His wife shamed him into handing the money back.
to be so much better than someone else that you make them seem bad or feel embarrassed
::Their Training record shamed Other companies.
to make someone feel they have lost all honour and respect
::She had shamed her family name (=done something that made her family lose honour) .

virgin birth (oh)



n
the virgin birth
the birth of Jesus, which Christians believe was caused by God, not by sex between a man and a woman