HUMILIATE DEFINITIONS - 11 definitions found
humiliate v 1: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase] Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) humiliate transitive verb (-ated; -ating) Etymology: Late Latin humiliatus, past participle of humiliare, from Latin humilis low — more at humble Date: circa 1534 to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes ; mortify • humiliation noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary humiliate (humiliates, humiliating, humiliated) To humiliate someone means to say or do something which makes them feel ashamed or stupid. She had been beaten and humiliated by her husband... His teacher continually humiliates him in maths lessons. VERB: be V-ed, V n • humiliated I have never felt so humiliated in my life. ADJ English Explanatory Dictionary humiliate hju:ˈmɪlɪeɪt v.tr. make humble; injure the dignity or self-respect of. øøhumiliating adj. humiliatingly adv. humiliation n. humiliator n. [LL humiliare (as HUMBLE)] English-Old English dictionary humiliate Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Humiliate \Hu*mil"i*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humiliated; p. pr. & vb. n. Humiliating.] [L. humiliatus, p. p. of humiliare. See Humble.] To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify. We stand humiliated rather than encouraged. --M. Arnold. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms humiliate v. a. Mortify, shame, abash, put to shame, put down. See humble, 1. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) humiliate hju:ˈmɪlɪeɪt v. See humble, 4. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 69 Moby Thesaurus words for "humiliate": abase, affront, beat down, bend, break, break down, bring into discredit, bring low, bring shame upon, bring to terms, call names, cast down, cast reproach upon, conquer, crush, debase, deflate, defrock, degrade, demean, deplume, disconcert, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disoblige, displume, disturb, dump on, embarrass, fleer at, flout, gibe at, give offense to, humble, hurl a brickbat, impute shame to, insult, jeer at, jibe at, let down, lower, master, mock, mortify, offend, outrage, overmaster, overwhelm, pillory, put down, put out, put to shame, quell, reduce, reflect discredit upon, reproach, scoff at, shame, sink, subdue, suppress, taunt, trample underfoot, tread underfoot, treat with indignity, tyrannize, unfrock, unman |
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