Humiliate

Definition: Humiliate

Humiliate

Verb

1. Lower in esteem; hurt the pride of.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "humiliate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Humiliate \Hu*mil"i*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Humiliated; present participle verb or noun Humiliating.]. (references)

Synonyms: Humiliate

Humility

Render humble; humble, humiliate; let down, set down, take down, tread down, frown down; snub, abash, abase, make one sing small, strike dumb; teach one his distance; put down, take down a peg, take down a peg lower; throw into the shade, cast into the shade; stare out of countenance, put out of countenance; put to the blush; confuse, ashame, mortify, disgrace, crush; send away with a flea in one's ear.

Crosswords: Humiliate

The best thing you have going for you is your willingness to humiliate yourself (As Good As It Gets; writing credit: Mark Andrus)

You're going to humiliate me, aren't you (My Best Friend's Wedding; writing credit: Ronald Bass)

We've put a man on the moon, but we haven't come up with a hospital gown that doesn't totally humiliate you. (The Dead Zone; writing credit: Aleksandar Djordjevic)

Angel, a monument to unholy carnality, and a cesspool of marital pollution, a shameless, brazen, bulldozing female prepared to humiliate, provoke, and tantalize, savagely seeking the tranquilizer of unrestrained fulfillment (Good Morning... and Goodbye!; writing credit: Jack Moran)

I wouldn't humiliate you (The Big Valley; writing credit: Jean-Claude Carrière)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Practical Jokes/Heartless Hoaxes and Cunning Tricks to Humiliate Friend and Foe (Pocket Entertainment) (reference)

• The Date Who Unleashed Hell: If You Love Me, Why Do You Humiliate Me (The Date Mystery Fiction Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Human Rights

Pakistan

Persons pay the police to humiliate their opponents and to avenge their personal grievances. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

According to local human rights groups, police and gendarmes beat and humiliate detainees or prisoners. (references)

Cuba

Human Rights Watch reported that in 1999 the Government revised the Penal Code to prohibit the use of corporal punishment on prisoners and the use of any means to humiliate prisoners or to lessen their dignity; however, the revised code failed to establish penalties for committing such acts, and they continued to occur in practice. (references)

Political Rights

Singapore

In the past, the Government also has used parliamentary censure or the threat of censure to humiliate or intimidate opposition leaders. (references)

Women

Pakistan

No executions have been carried out under this law and conviction rates remain low because rape, and gang rape in particular, commonly is used by landlords and criminal bosses to humiliate and terrorize local residents. (references)

India

The Committee notes that inability to prove those important events by documentation prevents effective implementation of laws that protect girls from sexual exploitation and trafficking, child labor and forced or early marriage." Dalit ("untouchable" caste) women have been stripped naked by mobs, and paraded around in public to humiliate Dalits who offend other castes. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

turpëroj (attaint, confuse, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, mortify, spot), poshtëroj (abase, demean, humble, let down, lower, mortify, vituperate, wipe the floor with). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ذل (abase, be low, debase, degradation, demean, humble, humbleness, ignominy, let down, lowness, mortify, prostration), ‏أخزى (degrade, discountenance, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame). (various references)

Bulgarian 

унижавам (abase, bring down, condescend, debase, degrade, demean, disgrace, gall, humble, lour, lower, mortify, prostrate, put down, sink). (various references)

Chinese 

羞辱 (baffle), 欺凌 (humiliated, humiliating). (various references)

Czech

ponížit (abase, debase, degrade, humble, tame), pokořit (humble, mortify). (various references)

Farsi 

پست کردن (Abase, Abject, Debase, Degrade, Demean, Disparage, Disrate, Humble, Mortify, Post), تحقیرکردن (Abject, Calldown, Despise, Score), اهانت کردن به . (various references)

Finnish

nöyryyttää (humble). (various references)

French

humilions, humiliez, humilier (humble), humilient, gifler. (various references)

German

erniedrigen (abase, abate, decrease, degrade, flat, flatten, humble, lower, to abase, to humiliate, vulgarize). (various references)

Greek 

εξευτελίζω (abase, debase, degrade, demean, depredate, derogate, discredit, vilify). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעלוב (affront, insult, put to shame), לעלב (affront, insult), ל�"שפיל (abase, debase, degrade, demean, humble, lower, mortify, snub). (various references)

Hungarian

megaláz (abase, abject, humble, to abase, to abject, to humble, to humiliate, to keelhaul, to lower, to put down, to slight), lealacsonyít (degrade, to abject, to debase, to degrade, to disparage, to humiliate, to lay flat, to lay low). (various references)

Indonesian

merendahkan (attemper, blacken, debase, lower), menghina (contempt, debase, deride, derogatory, insult, misprize, opprobrious, taunt), mengaibkan (bring disgrace on, reprimand), memfadihatkan (disgrace). (various references)

Italian

umiliare (abase, humble, humble oneself, lower, mortify, snub, squash). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

凹ます (to dent, to depress, to humiliate, to indent), 凹ませる (to dent, to depress, to humiliate, to indent). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

へ�"ます (to dent, to depress, to humiliate, to indent), へ�"ませる (to dent, to depress, to humiliate, to indent). (various references)

Manx

injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, relegate, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize). (various references)

Norwegian

ydmyke (humble). (various references)

Pig Latin

umiliatehay.(various references)

Portuguese

humilhar (abase, abash, bemean, cast down, cheapen, demean, depress, humble, let down, lour, lower, mortify, prostrate), rebaixar (abase, banalize, belittle, bemean, bust, crab, debase, decry, degrade, demean, demote, denigrate, depreciate, diminish, disparage, flange, humble, lower, mark down, put down, vilipend, vulgarize). (various references)

Romanian

umili (abase, abash, bear down, humble, mortify, snub, stoop, submit, take down), apleca (be inclined, bend, bow, enslave, hang down, incline, lower, slope, stoop, submit, surrender, tilt, tilt over), înjosi (abase, debase, degrade, humble, mortify, stoop). (various references)

Russian 

унижать (abase, degrade, demean, depreciate, lower, mortify). (various references)

Scottish

irislich. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uniziti (abase), poniziti (abase, debase, degrade, demean, downgrade, humble, mortify). (various references)

Spanish

humillar (abase, abash, derogate, humble, lay low, lower, mortify, pull down, put down). (various references)

Swedish

förödmjuka (abase, do down, humble, mortify). (various references)

Thai

ขายหน้าขายตา. (various references)

Turkish

utandırmak (abash, bring disgrace on smb., confound, disgrace, embarrass, make smb. feel small, mortify, put smb. to confusion, put smb. to shame, put to the blush, scandalize, shame, wither), küçük düşürmek (abase, affront, bring into contempt, debase, degrade, depreciate, detract, disparage, give affront to, give smb. the wall, lessen, lower, make smb. feel small, run down, score smb. off, snub, stigmatize, stultify, take smb. down a peg), aşağılamak (abase, belittle, give smb. the wall, insult, pooh pooh, scorn, take down, talk down). (various references)

Turkmen 

kemsitmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

ображати (abuse, affront, damnify, dishonor, dishonour, frump, huff, injure, insult, offend, outrage, revile, umbrage), принижувати (belittle, невимушенІсть [f], deject, demean, derogate, detract, humble, lower, mortify, slur, snub, spite, vilify). (various references)

Welsh

darostwng (abase, humble, lower, subdue, subject). (various references)

humilia, humiliabam, humiliaberis, humiliabis, humiliabit, humiliabitur, humiliabo, humiliabuntur, humiliamini, humiliando, humilians, humiliant, humiliantis, humiliare, humiliarer, humiliaret, humiliari, humiliassem, humiliasti, humiliat, humiliata, humiliati, humiliatique, humiliato, humiliatum, humiliatus, humiliatusque, humiliaverat, humiliaverit, humiliaverunt, humiliavi, humiliavimus, humiliavit, humiliemus, humilieris, humiliet, humilietis, humilior, suggillet. (various references)

baissier. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "humiliate": humiliated, humiliates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Humiliate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hamulate, humihia, humilate, humiliator, humilinate, Humilitas, humilitate, humuliate, Hunslete. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lithemia.

-2 letters: lithium.

-3 letters: amulet, halite, hamlet, hamuli, helium, hiemal, humate, lithia, milieu, muleta, telium, thulia, ultima.

-4 letters: almeh, email, haulm, haute, hemal, hilum, ileum, ilium, laith, lathe, lathi, lehua, limit, litai, lithe, lutea, maile, metal, miaul, milia, telia, ulema, utile.

-5 letters: ahem, alit, alme, alum, amie, eath, elhi, emit, etui, haem, haet, hail, hale.

+1 letter: humiliated, humiliates.

+3 letters: epithalamium.

+4 letters: epithalamiums, hemagglutinin.

+5 letters: hemagglutinins.