Another word for humiliate
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Verb
To deprive of esteem, self-worth, or effectiveness
- To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.
- To discipline (one's of the body and the appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially for religious reasons.
- To practice mortification of the body and its appetites.
- Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.
- Showing deferential or submissive respect:
- Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly:
- To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner:
- To lower in quality or value; make inferior or less valuable:
- To lower in dignity; dishonor or disgrace:
- To reduce in grade, rank, or status; demote.
- To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem.
Idioms:
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Another word for humiliate
Verb
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- (idiomatic) Alternative form of pull down a peg.
- designating or of a menu whose options are displayed beneath its title with a click of the mouse
- To make a legitimate rulership lose their position of power.
- To reduce
- To make something, especially something flying, fall to the ground. Usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
- a belittling remark or crushing retort
- Discount from the offering price that is given to a member of an underwriting group that is selling the securities. Discount from the offering price that is given to a member of an underwriting group that is selling the securities.
- To defeat or conquer in battle; subjugate.
- To defeat in a contest, conflict, or competition.
- To overcome or subdue (an emotion, for example); suppress:
- To gain control of or subdue by military force:
- To defeat in war:
- To eliminate or minimize (a difficulty, for example):
- The lowest or bottom part:
- The part of a plant or animal organ that is nearest to its point of attachment.
- The point of attachment of such an organ.
- To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner:
- To cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently; smash.
- To divide into pieces, as by bending or cutting:
- To separate into components or parts:
- A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event:
- To cause to feel chagrin; mortify or discomfit:
- To lower in spirits; deject.
- To cause to drop or sink; lower:
- To press down:
- Loss of honor, respect, or reputation.
- The condition of having lost honor or good repute.
- A cause of loss of honor:
- To look angry, sullen, or threatening.
- To appear dark or stormy, as the sky.
- A threatening, sullen, or angry look.
- To cause to become confused or perplexed.
- To fail to distinguish; mix up:
- To make (something bad) worse:
- To ignore or behave coldly toward; slight.
- To dismiss, turn down, or frustrate the expectations of.
- To check the movement of (a rope or cable running out) by turning it quickly about a post or cleat.
- To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; bewilder or perplex.
- To cause to feel embarrassment.
- To fail to differentiate (one person or thing) from another:
- To declare untrue; assert to be false:
- To refuse to believe; reject:
- To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; disavow:
- To make ashamed or uneasy; disconcert.
- To make uneasy or perplexed; disconcert.
- To defeat in battle; vanquish.
- Discomfiture.
- A painful emotion caused by the awareness of having done something wrong or foolish:
- Respect for propriety or morality:
- A pervasive, negative emotional state, usually originating in childhood, marked by chronic self-reproach and a sense of personal failure.
- To press between opposing bodies so as to break, compress, or injure:
- To break, pound, or grind (stone or ore, for example) into small fragments or powder.
- To put down with force; subdue:
- To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame:
- To disparage; belittle:
- To lower in quality or value; make inferior or less valuable:
- To lower in dignity; dishonor or disgrace:
- To reduce in grade, rank, or status; demote.
- Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.
- Showing deferential or submissive respect:
- Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly:
- To humiliate; to disgrace.
- To outdo; to surpass; to outperform; to show up.
- To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.
- To discipline (one's of the body and the appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially for religious reasons.
- To practice mortification of the body and its appetites.
- To correct by punishment or reproof; take to task.
- To restrain; subdue:
- To rid of excess; refine or purify:
- To lower in character, quality, or value; degrade.
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