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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
humble \hum"ble\, v. t. imp. p. p. humbled; p. pr. vb. n.
humbling.
1. to bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or
exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
1913 webster
here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's
plagues
have humbled to all strokes. --shak.
1913 webster
the genius which humbled six marshals of france.
--macaulay.
1913 webster
2. to make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or
arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make
meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
1913 webster
humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
god, that he may exalt you. --1 pet. v. 6.
syn: to abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace;
degrade.
1913 webster
see also:
humbled humbling
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
humbled
adj : subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought
low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" syn: broken,
crushed, humiliated, low
see also:
broken crushed humiliated low
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
53 moby thesaurus words for "humbled":
abashed, abject, apologetic, ashamed, blushing, bowed down, broken,
brought down, brought low, chagrined, chapfallen, conquered,
contrite, crestfallen, crushed, diminished, domesticated,
embarrassed, felled, flattened, hangdog, housebroke, housebroken,
humble, humiliated, in the dust, lowered, made to grovel, mastered,
melted, mortified, out of countenance, penitent, penitential,
penitentiary, put down, quelled, red-faced, reduced, repentant,
set down, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sheepish, smashed,
softened, subdued, subjugated, suppressed, tamed, touched,
vanquished
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