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Beshame vs Beshake - What's the difference?

beshame | beshake |

In transitive terms the difference between beshame and beshake

is that beshame is to shame; put to shame; make shameful while beshake is to shake roughly or violently.

beshame

English

Verb

(besham)
  • To shame; put to shame; make shameful.
  • *1832 , “The” Philological Museum:
    • Controversy is the element of the learned person who has undertaken to beshame and chastise me: [...]
  • *1902 , John George Gibson, Watching for the daybreak! 31 sermons :
    • But His approval was a conventional outrage! What can be less in accord with the customs of society than to criticize and beshame one's host, especially if we judge him out of his own mouth?
  • *2010 , David Ben Moshe, The Secret of the Jews: Letters to Nietzsche :
    • [...] a leading historian of the period, wrote, "Although they assimilated with those nations completely, they will find no peace among them; for the nations will always revile and beshame them, plot against them and falsely accuse them in matters [...]

    beshake

    English

    Verb

  • To shake roughly or violently.
  • *1914 , Alber Hale Plumb, When mayflowers blossom: a romance of Plymouth's first years - Page 350 :
    • Once away, he exclaimed in a heat of self-accusation, "I could beshake me! What manner of guardiance and conduction have I offered you?"