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humiliate

verb
/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin humiliātus, perfect passive participle of humiliō (“to abase, humble”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin humilis (“lowly, humble”), from humus (“ground; earth, soil”); see humble.

  1. derived from humilis
  2. borrowed from humiliātus

Definitions

  1. To cause to be ashamed

    To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.

    • The bully tried to humiliate the other students during lunch.
    • He would never intentionally humiliate anyone, even in jest.
    • The harsh comments from the coach humiliated the player in front of the team.

  2. To make humble

    To make humble; to lower in condition or status.

  3. To defeat overwhelmingly.

The neighborhood

Derived

humiliatable, humiliatrix, rehumiliate

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at humiliate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01humiliate02ashamed03feeling04attended05attendance06tally07target08ridicule09humiliating

A definitional loop anchored at humiliate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at humiliate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA