Humiliate
[hjʊ'mɪlɪeɪt] or [hju'mɪlɪet]
Definition
(verb.) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; 'He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss'.
Checker: Lucille--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.
Typed by Beryl
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Humble, mortify, shame, abash, SNUB, put to shame, put down.
Edited by Arnold
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See HUMBLE_and_ELEVATE]
Typist: Psyche
Definition
v.t. to make humble: to depress: to lower in condition.—adjs. Humil′iant humiliating; Humil′iāting humbling mortifying.—n. Humiliā′tion the act of humiliating: abasement: mortification.
Editor: Rufus
Examples
- Why did you come here to humiliate me? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- You shall be the meanest slave in the service of the goddess you have attempted to humiliate. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He wanted to hurt and humiliate Germany more than France had been hurt and humiliated in 1871. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Why did you come here to humiliate yourself? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The Athenians were content to humiliate Pericles, but he had served them so long that they were indisposed to do without him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nothing would please him better than to humiliate me and then to kill me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- France was humiliated and crippled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He wanted to hurt and humiliate Germany more than France had been hurt and humiliated in 1871. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Yet he felt a little bit ashamed, humiliated, putting on his clothes before her, in the candle-light. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If Mrs. Thornton had spoken to her about the lie she had told, well and good--she would have owned it, and humiliated herself. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Tal Hajus, said Lorquas Ptomel in a cold, hard voice, never in my long life have I seen a jeddak of the Tharks so humiliated. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- His brother, however, to whom he had been bound apprentice for a period of nine years, humiliated and beat him. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Behind which follow stragglers of the Garde-du-Corps; all humiliated, in Grenadier bonnets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gerald looked at him, and with a slight revulsion saw the human animal, golden skinned and bare, somehow humiliating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- This is indeed too much: this is cruel, this is humiliating, were the words that fell from him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She thought it humiliating to see a man dressing: the ridiculous shirt, the ridiculous trousers and braces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nevertheless, in her new humiliating uncertainty she dared do nothing but comply. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I suppose, were all things ordered aright, they ought not to be in a position to need that humiliating relief; and this they feel. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I should call such a scandal humiliating if there was the least chance of its being true. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Bankruptcy is, perhaps, the greatest and most humiliating calamity which can befal an innocent man. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It's the failure to live that makes one ill, and humiliates one. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Dying is only bad when it takes a long time and hurts so much that it humiliates you. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Edited by Andrea