What does Humiliate mean?

Definitions for Humiliate
hyuˈmɪl iˌeɪt; often yu-hu·mil·i·ate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abaseverb

    cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

    "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"

Wiktionary

  1. humiliateverb

    To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

  2. Etymology: From humiliatus, past participle of humiliare, from humilis, from humus; see humble.

Wikipedia

  1. humiliate

    Humiliation is the abasement of pride, which creates mortification or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission. It is an emotion felt by a person whose social status, either by force or willingly, has just decreased. It can be brought about through intimidation, physical or mental mistreatment or trickery, or by embarrassment if a person is revealed to have committed a socially or legally unacceptable act. Whereas humility can be sought alone as a means to de-emphasize the ego, humiliation must involve other person(s), though not necessarily directly or willingly. Humiliation is currently an active research topic, and is now seen as an important – and complex – core dynamic in human relationships, having implications at intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional and international levels.

ChatGPT

  1. humiliate

    To humiliate someone is to cause a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity often deliberately, to degrade or belittle their worth or value, resulting in feelings of shame or embarrassment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Humiliateverb

    to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify

  2. Etymology: [L. humiliatus, p. p. of humiliare. See Humble.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Humiliate

    hū-mil′i-āt, v.t. to make humble: to depress: to lower in condition.—adjs. Humil′iant, humiliating; Humil′iāting, humbling, mortifying.—n. Humiliā′tion, the act of humiliating: abasement: mortification. [L. humiliāre, -ātum.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Humiliate in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Humiliate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Humiliate in a Sentence

  1. Matthew Pottinger:

    So, the Party now compiles dossiers on millions of foreign citizens around the world, using the material that it gathers to influence, target, intimidate, reward, blackmail, flatter, humiliate, and ultimately divide and conquer.

  2. Volodymyr Zelensky:

    One of the key tasks of the enemy is to humiliate us, Ukrainians, to devalue our capabilities, our heroes, to spread despair, fear, to spread conflicts... Therefore, it is important never, for a single moment, to give in to this enemy pressure, not to wind oneself up, not to show weakness.

  3. Jonathan Caspi:

    The difference may be how severe the physical violence gets. Boys tend to do more damage, particularly when older, it was also assumed that girls relied more on relational aggression( e.g., strategies to socially humiliate, isolating, injure reputation) than boys. However, there is evidence that brothers use this approach about the same too.

  4. Beth Correia:

    I want to knock her out, show to everyone that she is a lie, she wants to stand up with me, let’s see. I want to humiliate her and show the world she has no MMA. She is focused on movies, books ….

  5. Michele McKenzie:

    I think the intent was to embarrass or humiliate her, i think that was the very clear message sent to her by someone with tremendous amount of power.

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