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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HUM'BLED, pp. Made low; abased; rendered meek and submissive; penitent.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Humble Hum"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Humbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Humbling.] 1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate. Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak. The genius which humbled six marshals of France. --Macaulay. 2. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6. Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace; degrade.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see humble

Moby Thesaurus

abashed, abject, apologetic, ashamed, blushing, bowed down, broken, brought down, brought low, chagrined, chapfallen, conquered, contrite, crestfallen, crushed, diminished, domesticated, embarrassed, felled, flattened, hangdog, housebroke, housebroken, humble, humiliated, in the dust, lowered, made to grovel, mastered, melted, mortified, out of countenance, penitent, penitential, penitentiary, put down, quelled, red-faced, reduced, repentant, set down, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sheepish, smashed, softened, subdued, subjugated, suppressed, tamed, touched, vanquished