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Definition
extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride — especially in front of others)
- A humiliating event in the church, and rising contentions in the village.Book 4 — Bel and the Serpent (13% in)
- Tata Ndu certainly had his arrogance in the ways of command, even calling down a vote in church to humiliate my father, but in matters of life and death, I can see now, he was almost incomprehensibly polite.Book 5 — Exodus (56% in)
There are no more uses of "humiliate" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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