(chastens, chastening, chastened)
If you are chastened by something, it makes you regret that you have behaved badly or stupidly. (FORMAL)
He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention...
A chastened Agassi flew home for a period of deep contemplation.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed by n, V-ed, also be V-ed into n/-ing
• chastened
The President now seems a more chastened and less confident politician than when he set out a week ago.
ADJ