Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 11th Edition
SHAME
I. noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English scamu; akin to Old High German scama shame Date: before 12th century
1. a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt, shortcoming, or impropriety, the susceptibility to such emotion , a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute ; ignominy ,
3. something that brings censure or reproach, a cause of feeling shame,
II. transitive verb (shamed; shaming)
Date: 13th century
to bring shame to ; disgrace , to put to shame by outdoing, to cause to feel shame, to force by causing to feel guilty