humiliate
verb /hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/
/hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they humiliate | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/ |
| he / she / it humiliates | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪts/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪts/ |
| past simple humiliated | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle humiliated | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form humiliating | /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪŋ/ /hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪŋ/ |
- 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 ExamplesTopics Feelingsc1- I have never felt so humiliated in all my life.
- Lowe was publicly humiliated by his colleagues.
- She felt completely humiliated.
- There was no need to humiliate herself over something so petty.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deeply
- completely
- totally
- …
- in front of
- feel humiliated
Word Originmid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as humiliation): from late Latin humiliat- ‘made humble’, from the verb humiliare, from humilis ‘low, lowly’, from humus ‘ground’. The original meaning was ‘bring low’; the current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.