英语词汇“humiliated”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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humiliate

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	humiliate
	he, she, it	humiliates
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	humiliated
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have humiliated
	he, she, it	has humiliated
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had humiliated
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will humiliate
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have humiliated

Continuous Form
Present	I	am humiliating
	he, she, it	is humiliating
	you, we, they	are humiliating
Past	I, he, she, it	was humiliating
	you, we, they	were humiliating
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been humiliating
	he, she, it	has been humiliating
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been humiliating
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be humiliating
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been humiliating

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

Lewis says her son was humiliated by his teacher in front of his fifth-grade class.
The invading army took every opportunity to humiliate the local peasants.
Why do you always have to humiliate me in front of your friends?

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Grown men shouldn't humiliate themselves like this.
She had heard of the most appalling things-kidnapped bride, imprisoned and humiliated bridegroom, Halloween destructions and practical jokes.
They were strange men and women with peppermint breath and pictures of humiliated ancestors up on their walls.
When confronted with the messiah being humiliated, tortured and killed, Peter refuses to listen.
Who wants to talk things over after being physically subdued and humiliated?

Longman Language Activatorto make someone feel ashamed► make somebody (feel) ashamed

· At first the neighbor's generosity made her feel ashamed.· What I saw in the schools made me ashamed of my views - it was clear to me that most students really want to learn.

► shame somebody

to make someone feel ashamed: · People with leprosy were shamed and driven out of their communities.shame somebody into (doing) something: · Many people have been shamed into silence when it comes to discussing their sex lives.it shames somebody to do something: · It shamed her to realize how long she had been involved with Claude.

► humiliate

to make someone feel very ashamed and upset, especially by making them look weak or stupid: · Why do you always have to humiliate me in front of your friends?· The invading army took every opportunity to humiliate the local peasants.

► disgrace

if you disgrace yourself or disgrace your family, your school etc, you behave very badly so that other people lose respect for you or for your family or school: · She didn't tell anyone that she was pregnant for fear of disgracing her family.· My grandmother thought I was disgracing myself, following Tim around like a love-sick puppy.

► bring shame on

to make people lose respect for yourself, your family, country etc because you have behaved badly: · The MP was accused of bringing shame and humiliation on the whole party.· The shooting of an innocent man has brought shame on the entire police department.

► humiliating

causing a complete loss of self-respect, especially because you have been made to look weak or stupid: · I had to apologize in front of everyone - it was so humiliating.· Prisoners are subjected to humiliating treatment and frequent beatings.· Anderson suffered a humiliating defeat in the last election.

► degrading

a situation or way of treating someone that is degrading makes them lose all their self-respect and makes them feel that they are completely worthless: · These poor people live in the most degrading conditions.degrading to: · Many of the remarks were degrading to women and minorities.

ashamed► ashamed

someone who is ashamed feels very sorry about something they have done or embarrassed by something relating to them, so that they think people may no longer respect them: · I didn't want anyone to know I'd been fired because I felt ashamed.ashamed of: · She was so ashamed of cheating on the test that she went and told the teacher.· For a long time I was ashamed of my father and the fact he never finished school.ashamed about: · There's nothing to be ashamed about - lots of people have money problems.ashamed (that): · I realize now that you were telling the truth, and I'm ashamed that I didn't believe you.ashamed to do something: · She really needed me but - I'm ashamed to admit it - I didn't help her.ashamed of yourself: · You ought to be ashamed of yourself - coming home drunk like that!bitterly/deeply ashamed: · The knowledge that I had caused him to lose his job made me bitterly ashamed.

► humiliated

feeling very ashamed and upset, especially because you have been made to look weak or stupid and you think that no one will respect you: · Ross yelled at me in front of the whole office - I've never been so humiliated in my life!· Many women who have been assaulted feel too frightened and humiliated to report their ordeal.

► can't look somebody in the face/not be able to look somebody in the face

to be so ashamed about something you have done to someone that you find it difficult to be with them or talk to them: · I'm so embarrassed - I'll never be able to look her in the face again.· After the layoffs were announced, I couldn't look any of the people on the shop floor in the face.

► shamefaced

showing in the expression on your face that you are ashamed about something and you know you have behaved badly: · He came to my office, shamefaced, to apologize.· A shamefaced spokesperson admitted that mistakes had been made.

► hang/bow your head (in shame)

to look ashamed: · He bowed his head in shame as the details of his arrest were read out in court.

► shame on you!

spoken use this to tell someone that they should feel shame because of something they have done: · Shame on you for lying to your grandmother!

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► a humiliating defeat

(=very embarrassing)· They are still bitter about their humiliating defeat.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► publicly

· In a choice between meekly obeying his commands and being publicly humiliated there really was no choice.· He had been publicly humiliated by widespread accusations that supporters had rigged the results of the poll to secure him a seat.

► so

· I've never been so humiliated in my entire life, and all because of you!· Why do we have to be so humiliated by officialdom?· Wasn't it enough that he had been so humiliated?· I have never been so humiliated in all my life.· She had never, she said, been so humiliated in her life.

VERB► feel

· He felt shamed and humiliated by the officious treatment he received at the hands of the pompous men at Immigration.· Perhaps they wanted everything immediately, or perhaps they felt the need to humiliate Mr Gubbay.· He felt humiliated and his anger grew.· She felt stupid now, humiliated by her own behaviour.· Then I felt embarrassed, humiliated.· She mobilised all those who felt either humiliated by its paternalism or angry at its hypocrisy.· He said that he had felt humiliated in front of his suite mates and in front of female students.