disgrace
verb/dɪsˈɡreɪs/
/dɪsˈɡreɪs/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they disgrace | /dɪsˈɡreɪs/ /dɪsˈɡreɪs/ |
| he / she / it disgraces | /dɪsˈɡreɪsɪz/ /dɪsˈɡreɪsɪz/ |
| past simple disgraced | /dɪsˈɡreɪst/ /dɪsˈɡreɪst/ |
| past participle disgraced | /dɪsˈɡreɪst/ /dɪsˈɡreɪst/ |
| -ing form disgracing | /dɪsˈɡreɪsɪŋ/ /dɪsˈɡreɪsɪŋ/ |
- to behave badly in a way that makes you or other people feel ashamed
- disgrace yourself She disgraced herself by losing her temper and storming out.
- disgrace somebody/something He had disgraced the family name.
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- be disgracedto lose the respect of people, usually so that you lose a position of power
- He was publicly disgraced and sent into exile.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (as a verb): via French from Italian disgrazia (noun), disgraziare (verb), from dis- (expressing reversal) + Latin gratia ‘grace’.
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