hu·mil·i·ate

(hyo͞o-mĭl′ē-āt′)

tr.v. hu·mil·i·at·ed, hu·mil·i·at·ing, hu·mil·i·ates

To cause (someone) to feel a loss of pride, dignity, or self-respect: humiliated him with a contemptuous refusal.

[Late Latin humiliāre, humiliāt-, to humble, from humilis, humble; see humble.]

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Adj.

humiliating - causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"

demeaning, humbling, mortifying

undignified - lacking dignity

humiliating

adjective embarrassing, shaming, humbling, mortifying, crushing, disgracing, degrading, ignominious, toe-curling (slang), cringe-making (Brit. informal), cringeworthy (Brit. informal) The Conservatives have suffered a humiliating defeat.

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Translations

مُذِلّ، مُخْزٍ

ponižující

niîurlægjandi

ponižujoč

aşağılayıcıküçük düşürücü

丢脸的

humiliating

[hjuːˈmɪlɪeɪtɪŋ] ADJ → humillante, vergonzoso

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humiliating

[hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪŋ] adj (= crushing) [defeat, experience] → humiliant(e)

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humiliating

adj defeat, experience → demütigend; blow, conditions → beschämend

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humiliating

[hjuːˈmɪlɪˌeɪtɪŋ] adj → umiliante

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humiliate

(hjuˈmilieit) verb

to make (someone) feel ashamed. He was humiliated to find that his girlfriend could run faster than he could.

huˈmiliating adjective

huˌmiliˈation noun

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You know on what I ground my hope, and it is certainly a good foundation, for school must be very humiliating to a girl of Frederica's age.

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Never have I been in so humiliating a position in my life, and only my love for Dejah Thoris and the hope which still clung to me that I might again see her kept me from rising to face the goddess of the First Born and go down to my death like a gentleman, facing my foes and with their blood mingling with mine.

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Do not think that I humiliate myself by writing thus to you, or that I belong to that class of people who take a satisfaction in humiliating themselves--from pride.

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Though he dreaded humiliation more than anything in the world, he hugged himself for two or three days at the thought of the agonising joy of humiliating himself to the Glory of God.

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The countess was upset by her friend's sorrow and humiliating poverty, and was therefore out of sorts, a state of mind which with her always found expression in calling her maid "my dear" and speaking to her with exaggerated politeness.

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And what is most humiliating of all, to blame for no fault of my own but, so to say, through the laws of nature.

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Summary: Guwahati (Assam) [India], May 27 (ANI): Congress leader Ripun Bora submitted his resignation to Congress president Rahul Gandhi from the post of president of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee after the "humiliating defeat" of the party in the recently held Lok Sabha elections.

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The measure sought to promote "positive and non-violent discipline" and to protect children from physical, humiliating or degrading acts as a form of punishment.

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Lahore -- A woman lodged complain against the unknown men for assaulting, humiliating and threatening in the broad day light.

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