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Old 06-Aug-2005, 19:56
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Default Re: Is this sentence correct?

This word abash as a verb is archaic in writing and extinct in speech, like RBM said. The only time you see it is as its participle, abashed. That word so rare that I'd guess that only about one-tenth of all English-speakers know what it means.
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