(transitive) to humble.

transitive. To reduce or bring down (esp. a person), with respect to power, status, rank, etc.; to humble, bring low; to abase. Also reflexive. Obs…

transitive. To make meek in spirit, to humble; (occasionally) to appease, mollify. Obsolete.

transitive. To lower in position or station; to degrade, demean; = lessen, v. 4. Obsolete.

transitive. To bring down physically, socially, or mentally; to humble, abase. Obsolete.

transitive. To lower in rank, condition, or character; to humble, humiliate, degrade. In later use chiefly reflexive.

transitive (reflexive). To humble oneself; to bring oneself low. Cf. low, v.2 1a.

transitive. To make meek; to humble, soften, tame; †to mitigate, calm, soothe (obsolete); to lessen the violence of; to bring low, abase.

transitive. figurative. To hinder the advancement, progress, or promotion of; to reduce in quality, status, or condition.

transitive. To cause (a person) to feel humility; to humble. Cf. simple, adj. 2.

transitive. To humble or lay low. Also reflexive: to lower oneself, condescend.

transitive. To humble, to humiliate.

To punish, chastise (generally). Obsolete.

to pare the nails of: to impose restrictions on; to control. Cf. to clip the wings of at clip, v.2 1d. Obsolete.

transitive. To lower the dignity, position, or character of; to degrade, demean. Now only reflexive.

figurative. To abase, humble, or lower (one's courage, the heart, etc.); to submit, subject, or yield (one thing) to (another). Obsolete.

to be in the hole U.S.: to be in (usually financial) difficulties (cf. 3). a hole in the head, esp. in to need (something) like a hole in the head…

transitive. To divest of state or grandeur.

transitive. To render humble or meek in spirit; to cause to think more lowly of oneself.

(transitive) to humble thoroughly or completely.

transitive. To make low or humble in position, condition, or feeling; to humble. reflexive. To humble or abase oneself, to stoop; sometimes, to…

simply. To lower the position of, bring down.

transitive. To remove from a niche. Chiefly figurative.

to level up, down: to bring up, down to the level of something (expressed or implied). Also absol., and intransitive for reflexive.

transitive. To remove from a pedestal. Chiefly figurative: to remove from a position of being (unduly) admired or exalted.

colloquial. to take the starch out of: (a) to make fun of, ridicule; to humble; to humiliate; to deflate; (b) to exhaust utterly; to put out of…