MEANING
To make someone feel ashamed, foolish, or stripped of dignity, especially before others.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- humiliate publicly
- humiliate an opponent
On the page
He corrected her loudly enough to humiliate her in front of the entire class.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- humiliate
- Past tense
- humiliated
- Past participle
- humiliated
- Present participle
- humiliating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- humiliate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are humiliating
- Present perfect
- have/has humiliated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been humiliating
- Past
- humiliated
- Past continuous
- was/were humiliating
- Past perfect
- had humiliated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been humiliating
- Future
- will humiliate
- Future continuous
- will be humiliating
- Future perfect
- will have humiliated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been humiliating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: humiliate; humiliates; humiliated; humiliated; humiliating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: humiliates.
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