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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HUMIL'IATED, pp. Humbled; depressed; degraded.

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]
2: made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister" [syn: embarrassed, humiliated, mortified]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see humiliate

Moby Thesaurus

abashed, ashamed, blushing, broken, brought low, chagrined, chapfallen, crestfallen, crushed, domesticated, embarrassed, hangdog, housebroke, housebroken, humbled, made to grovel, mortified, out of countenance, quelled, red-faced, reduced, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, subdued, tamed