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humiliate
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  • One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were...†  (source)
  • In the case of Saumensch, it serves to castigate, berate, or plain humiliate a female.  (source)
    humiliate = cause a loss of dignity
  • Shawn had meant it to humiliate me, to lock me in time, into an old idea of myself.  (source)
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  • Burning with humiliation, Esperanza dropped the broom and ran back to the cabin.†  (source)
  • The Augustus Waters of the crooked smiles and unsmoked cigarettes was gone, replaced by this desperate humiliated creature sitting there beneath me.  (source)
    humiliated = extremely embarrassed or with wounded dignity
  • After four-to-six weeks of backbreaking slave labor, grueling homework assignments, and humiliating good behavior at school, a package arrived in George's mailbox from the Li'l Wiseguy Novelty Company.  (source)
    humiliating = extremely embarrassing
  • I knew he wanted to humiliate us on the opening play.  (source)
    humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity)
  • No. The man nodded as if accepting another in a long series of humiliations.†  (source)
  • My mother's anger humiliates me; her words chafe my cheeks, and I am crying.†  (source)
    humiliates = extremely embarrasses (decreases dignity)
  • Nevertheless, for a man sick with unsatisfied love, and parting for an indefinite period from the object of his passion, he felt himself almost humiliatingly calm and comforted.†  (source)
  • It was more a wish to appear calm, unhumiliated, to feel that the events were normal.†  (source)
    unhumiliated = not embarrassed
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhumiliated means not and reverses the meaning of humiliated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • What he deserved, I decided in that moment, was public humiliation and defeat.†  (source)
  • Our country had been humiliated and we wanted to know why.  (source)
    humiliated = embarrassed (suffered a decrease in dignity)
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