humiliate
$ \mathrm{humiliate}
verb
/hjuːˈmɪlieɪt/
​humiliate somebody/yourself/something to make somebody feel ashamed or stupid and lose the respect of other people
I didn't want to humiliate her in front of her colleagues.
I've never felt so humiliated.
How could I humiliate myself like that?
The party was humiliated in the recent elections.
I have never felt so humiliated in all my life.
Lowe was publicly humiliated by his colleagues.
She felt completely humiliated.
There was no need to humiliate herself over something so petty.
TOPICS FeelingsC1
Collocations
adverb
deeplycompletelytotally…
preposition
in front of
phrases
feel humiliated
Word Origin
mid 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.