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The synonyms of “Humiliate” are: abase, chagrin, humble, mortify, embarrass, show up, shame, make ashamed, put to shame, mortifying, humbling, shaming
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “humiliate” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| abase | Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of. I watched my colleagues abasing themselves before the board of trustees. |
| chagrin | Feel distressed or humiliated. He was chagrined when his friend poured scorn on him. |
| embarrass | Cause to be embarrassed cause to feel self conscious. He would be embarrassed by estate duty. |
| humble | Cause to be unpretentious. Wales were humbled at Cardiff Arms Park by Romania. |
| humbling | Cause to be unpretentious. |
| make ashamed | Act in a certain way so as to acquire. |
| mortify | Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of. They wish to return to heaven by mortifying the flesh. |
| mortifying | Practice self-denial of one’s body and appetites. |
| put to shame | Estimate. |
| shame | Bring shame to. I tried to shame him into giving some away. |
| shaming | Cause to be ashamed. |
| show up | Show in, or as in, a picture. |
| abase | Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of. I watched my colleagues abasing themselves before the board of trustees. |
| belittle | Express a negative opinion of. Don t belittle his influence. |
| chagrin | Annoyance or distress at having failed or been humiliated. He was chagrined when his friend poured scorn on him. |
| compromising | Vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion. She found herself in a compromising situation. |
| criticism | A serious examination and judgment of something. Alternative methods of criticism supported by well developed literary theories. |
| debase | Corrupt debase or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones. The love episodes debase the dignity of the drama. |
| decry | Publicly denounce. They decried human rights abuses. |
| defame | Damage the good reputation of (someone); slander or libel. He claimed that the article defamed his family. |
| degradation | The condition or process of degrading or being degraded. A trail of human misery and degradation. |
| degrade | Wear down (rock) and cause it to disintegrate. He was degraded from his high estate. |
| demean | Do something that is beneath one’s dignity. I had demeaned the profession. |
| demote | Move (someone) to a lower position or rank, usually as a punishment. She was demoted because she always speaks up. |
| denigrate | Criticize unfairly; disparage. Doom and gloom merchants who denigrate their own country. |
| deprecate | Express disapproval of. What I deprecate is persistent indulgence. |
| deprecatory | Apologetic or appeasing. A deprecatory smile. |
| derogate | Cause to seem less serious; play down. This does not derogate from his duty to act honestly and faithfully. |
| disappointment | A person or thing that causes disappointment. His hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment. |
| disdain | Look down on with disdain. He disdained to discuss the matter further. |
| disgrace | Bring shame or discredit on. If he d gone back it would have brought disgrace on the family. |
| disparage | Regard or represent as being of little worth. He never missed an opportunity to disparage his competitors. |
| disrepute | The state of being held in low esteem. One of the top clubs in the country is bringing the game into disrepute. |
| downgrade | Reduce to a lower grade, rank, or level of importance. Downgrades by debt rating agencies outnumber upgrades by five to one. |
| infamy | A state of extreme dishonor- F.D.Roosevelt. He thrived on the infamy and vilification. |
| inhuman | Not human in nature or character. The inhuman scale of the dinosaurs. |
| mortify | Practice self-denial of one’s body and appetites. Mortify the flesh. |
| opprobrium | Public disgrace arising from shameful conduct. The critical opprobrium generated by his films. |
| permafrost | A thick subsurface layer of soil that remains below freezing point throughout the year, occurring chiefly in polar regions. Hilly terrain underlain by permafrost. |
| relegate | Assign to a class or kind. United were relegated to division two. |
| shame | Bring shame to. It is a shame that they are not better known. |
| stultify | Prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone’s incompetence. Nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself. |
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