humiliate
verb🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/
🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they humiliate | 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/ 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/ |
| he / she / it humiliates | 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪts/ 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪts/ |
| past simple humiliated | 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ |
| past participle humiliated | 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form humiliating | 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪŋ/ 🔊/hjuːˈmɪlieɪtɪŋ/ |
- humiliate somebody/yourself/something
to make somebody feel ashamed or stupid and lose the respect of other people 羞辱；使丧失尊严 I didn't want to humiliate her in front of her colleagues. 我不想当着她同事们的面令她难堪。 🔊🔊 I've never felt so humiliated. 我从未感到如此羞辱。 🔊🔊 How could I humiliate myself like that? 我该如何羞辱自己？ The party was humiliated in the recent elections. 该党在新近的选举中耻辱地失败了。 🔊🔊
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsc1I have never felt so humiliated in all my life. 我一辈子都未受过如此羞辱。 Lowe was publicly humiliated by his colleagues. 洛遭到同事们的公开羞辱。 She felt completely humiliated. 她觉得自己受到极大的羞辱。 There was no need to humiliate herself over something so petty. 没必要因如此琐碎的事情而羞辱自己。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- deeply
- completely
- totally
- …
- in front of
- feel humiliated
Word Originmid 16th cent. (earlier (late Middle English) as humiliation): from late Latin humiliat- ‘made humble’, from the verb humiliare, from humilis ‘low, lowly’, from humus ‘ground’. The original meaning was ‘bring low’; the current sense dates from the mid 18th cent.