HUMILIATE


Meaning of HUMILIATE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a humiliating defeat (= very embarrassing )

They are still bitter about their humiliating defeat.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

publicly

In a choice between meekly obeying his commands and being publicly humiliated there really was no choice.

He had been publicly humiliated by widespread accusations that supporters had rigged the results of the poll to secure him a seat.

so

I've never been so humiliated in my entire life, and all because of you!

Why do we have to be so humiliated by officialdom?

Wasn't it enough that he had been so humiliated ?

I have never been so humiliated in all my life.

She had never, she said, been so humiliated in her life.

■ VERB

feel

He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration.

Perhaps they wanted everything immediately, or perhaps they felt the need to humiliate Mr Gubbay.

He felt humiliated and his anger grew.

She felt stupid now, humiliated by her own behaviour.

Then I felt embarrassed, humiliated .

She mobilised all those who felt either humiliated by its paternalism or angry at its hypocrisy.

He said that he had felt humiliated in front of his suite mates and in front of female students.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Lewis says her son was humiliated by his teacher in front of his fifth-grade class.

The invading army took every opportunity to humiliate the local peasants.

Why do you always have to humiliate me in front of your friends?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Grown men shouldn't humiliate themselves like this.

She had heard of the most appalling things-kidnapped bride, imprisoned and humiliated bridegroom, Halloween destructions and practical jokes.

They were strange men and women with peppermint breath and pictures of humiliated ancestors up on their walls.

When confronted with the messiah being humiliated, tortured and killed, Peter refuses to listen.

Who wants to talk things over after being physically subdued and humiliated?

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