0 to make someone feel ashamed by making them understand that they have failed or done something wrong -- nauczyć pokory
[ often passive ] The team were chastened by their defeat.
I stand corrected and suitably chastened.
I came away greatly chastened and far less critical.
He disappeared, chastened, after my brief conversation with him.
It is chastening for them, and has shown real results.
The idea that a young man leaves prison chastened and repentant is all too often a romantic myth.
The chastened tenor of his speech revealed him in an entirely new light.
They seem to have been chastened by the events of the election year, just as they accused us of having been chastened.
Arthur, after years of illness and exile, has returned, chastened and reduced.
