HUMILIATE meaning: Make someone feel deeply ashamed

We found 25 dictionaries that define the word humiliate:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

humiliate: Merriam-Webster
humiliate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
humiliate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
humiliate: Collins English Dictionary
humiliate: Vocabulary.com
Humiliate, humiliate: Wordnik
humiliate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
humiliate: Wiktionary
humiliate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
humiliate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
humiliate: Infoplease Dictionary
Humiliate, humiliate: Dictionary.com
humiliate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Humiliate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
humiliate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
humiliate: Rhymezone
humiliate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
humiliate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
humiliate: FreeDictionary.org
humiliate: Mnemonic Dictionary
humiliate: TheFreeDictionary.com
humiliate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

humiliate: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To make humble; to lower in condition or status.
▸ verb:  (transitive, sports, games) To defeat overwhelmingly.

Opposite:

exalt, honor, glorify

Types:

embarrass, mortify, disgrace, chagrin, vex, more...

Phrases:

to humiliate to belittle someone, to humiliate or belittle someone, to humiliate, publicly humiliate, humiliate me, more...

Colors:

gray, black, red, brown, dark purple, more...

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