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humiliate
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Unbroken, by Hillenbrand
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- Gasping and humiliated, he ran straight off the track and hid under the bleachers.†
p. 14.5 *humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- When the guards weren't venting their fury at the captives, they entertained themselves by humiliating them.†
p. 182.5humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- Few societies treasured dignity, and feared humiliation, as did the Japanese, for whom a loss of honor could merit suicide.†
p. 183.2
- He knew what would happen if he won, but the cheering and the accumulation of so many months of humiliation brought something in him to a hard point.†
p. 210.6
- Every day, the men were slapped, kicked, beaten, humiliated, and driven through forced exercises.†
p. 220.5humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Those who knew him would say that every part of his mind gathered around this blazing humiliation, and every subsequent action was informed by it.†
p. 234.2
- Even by the standards of his honor-conscious culture, he was unusually consumed by his perceived humiliation, and was intent upon inflicting the same pain on the men under his power.†
p. 237.5
- After the POWs left, Watanabe seemed to feel humiliated by having had to force friendship from lowly POWs.†
p. 238.6humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- They carried unspeakable memories of torture and humiliation, and an acute sense of vulnerability that attended the knowledge of how readily they could be disarmed and dehumanized.†
p. 349.2
- And for some men, years of swallowed rage, terror, and humiliation concentrated into what Holocaust survivor Jean Amery would call "a seething, purifying thirst for revenge."†
p. 349.5
- He felt foolish and humiliated.†
p. 352.4humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Months passed, and Kano languished in prison, frightened and humiliated.†
p. 357.9
- The Bird had taken his dignity and left him feeling humiliated, ashamed, and powerless, and Louie believed that only the Bird could restore him, by suffering and dying in the grip of his hands.†
p. 366.1
- In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away.†
p. 376.9
- It was not so much due to the pain and suffering as it was the tension of stress and humiliation that caused me to hate with a vengeance.†
p. 397.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(humiliate) extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)