spite, wound, bruise, injure, offend, hurt - hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
demolish, smash, crush - humiliate or depress completely; "She was crushed by his refusal of her invitation"; "The death of her son smashed her"
demean, disgrace, degrade, take down, put down - reduce in worth or character, usually verbally; "She tends to put down younger women colleagues"; "His critics took him down after the lecture"
to make (someone) feel ashamed. He was humiliated to find that his girlfriend could run faster than he could. verneder يُذِلُّ، يُحَقِّرُ унижавам humilhar zahanbit, pokořit erniedrigen ydmyge ταπεινώνω, εξευτελίζωhumillar alandama تحقير كردن nöyryyttää humilier לְהַשפִּיל नीचा दिखाना poniziti, posramiti megaláz mempermalukan lítillækka, niðurlægja umiliare 恥をかかせる 굴욕을 주다 pažeminti pazemot memalukan vernederenydmyke upokarzać سپکول، تحقیرول humilhar a umili унижать ponížiť ponižati poniziti förödmjuka ขายหน้า aşağılamak, küçük düşürmek 羞辱 принижувати کسی کو ذلیل کرنا làm nhục 羞辱
Robert Fisk, a multiple award-winning journalist on the Middle East and currently based in Beirut, in a recent piece for The Independent wrote, "So after the grotesquerie of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 suicide killers of 9/11, meet Saudi Arabia's latest monstrous contribution to world history: the Islamist Sunni caliphate of Iraq and the Levant, conquerors of Mosul and Tikrit and Raqqa in Syria and possibly Baghdad, and the ultimate humiliators of Bush and Obama.
humiliate - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"