humiliate.
To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
Meaning & usage
To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
The bully tried to humiliate the other students during lunch.
He would never intentionally humiliate anyone, even in jest.
To make humble; to lower in condition or status.
To defeat overwhelmingly.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Late Latin humiliātus, perfect passive participle of humiliō (“to abase, humble”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin humilis (“lowly, humble”), from humus (“ground; earth, soil”); see humble.
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