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- Dictionaryhumiliating/hjʊˈmɪlɪeɪtɪŋ/
adjective
- 1. making someone feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and pride: "a humiliating defeat"
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adjective. uk / hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪ.tɪŋ / us / hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪ.t̬ɪŋ / Add to word list. C2. making you feel ashamed or stupid: Losing my job was the most humiliating thing that ever happened to me. humiliating defeat The government suffered a humiliating defeat in yesterday's debate. humiliating to He found it humiliating to have to ask for money. Synonyms
Take the quiz. The meaning of HUMILIATE is to reduce (someone) to a lower position in one's own eyes or others' eyes : to make (someone) ashamed or embarrassed : mortify. How to use humiliate in a sentence.
HUMILIATE definition: 1. to make someone feel ashamed or lose respect for himself or herself: 2. to make someone feel…. Learn more.
Humiliate definition: to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity. . See examples of HUMILIATE used in a sentence.
Humiliating definition: lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying. See examples of HUMILIATING used in a sentence.
Something that humbles you and makes you feel foolish is humiliating: it's humiliating to sing your song for the school talent show in the wrong key, and it's even more humiliating when the audience laughs.
Humiliate means to make someone feel ashamed or stupid, often publicly. It would humiliate all but the most self-assured person to realize that everyone else in the room has noticed their fly is down.
to make you feel ashamed or lose respect for yourself: They called him an old fool in public just to humiliate him.
verb. /hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/ Verb Forms. humiliate somebody/yourself/something to make somebody feel ashamed or stupid and lose the respect of other people. I didn't want to humiliate her in front of her colleagues. I've never felt so humiliated. How could I humiliate myself like that? The party was humiliated in the recent elections. Extra Examples.
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. [be VERB -ed] There are people out there who want to humiliate you. [VERB noun] Synonyms: embarrass, shame, humble, crush More Synonyms of humiliate. humiliated adjective.
