• ashamed, be or feel: pŭdĕt, ŭit or pŭdĭtum est, 2 (with acc. of the person who experiences, and gen. or inf. mood of that which excites the feeling): there are men who are neither a. nor vexed at their infamy, sunt homines quos infamiae suae neque pudeat, neque taedeat, Cic.: we are a. of our scars, cicatricum pudet, Hor.: I should be ashamed to say I did not understand, puderet me dicere non intelligere, Cic.: also with supine in u: I am a. to say, pudet dictu, Tac.--(Note. In Plautus is found the personal form pudeo: Cas. 5, 2, 3.) To feel somewhat a., suppŭdet (constr. same as that of the simple verb): Cic. Phr. I am a., mihi rubor suffunditur, Sen (v. to blush): to fortify oneself against being a., se contra pudorem munire, Tac.