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# humiliate

«humiliate» in Mova's school dictionary: **To make someone feel very ashamed, foolish or small…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (humiliate, humiliates, humiliated, humiliating)

### meaning for a pupil

To make someone feel very ashamed, foolish or small, especially in front of other people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In ethics and stories it describes unkind behaviour, bullying, or embarrassing moments. It tells the reader a character's pride has been badly hurt. Phrases: humiliate someone in public, feel humiliated, a humiliating defeat.

### examples

- The bully tried to humiliate him in front of the class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliate/#x1)
- She felt humiliated when everyone laughed at her mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliate/#x2)
- Losing ten–nil was a humiliating defeat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliate/#x3)
- It is cruel to humiliate someone for being different. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliate/#x4)
- The coach never humiliates players when they make mistakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliate/#x5)
- He was humiliated when his trousers split on stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliate/#x6)

### note

Noun: humiliation. Adjective: humiliating (causing shame), humiliated (feeling shame). Stronger than «embarrass». Related to «humble» and «humility» but negative.

### In the corpora

- [Will they be humiliated?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/5/)
- [Being laughed at by many people online can be very humiliating, so do not film pranks without agreement.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/22/)
- [A prank is cruel when only one person is hurt or humiliated and the others laugh; that is bullying.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/30/)
- [«It's just a prank» does not make it okay if the person is scared or humiliated.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/439-cruel-pranks-and-where-the-line-is/39/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «humiliate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/humiliate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.