humiliated

[ hyoo-mil-ee-ey-tid, or, often, yoo- ]
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adjective
  1. made to feel a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; deeply embarrassed or put to shame: The strategy of the verbal abuser is to become the winner of every conversational debate and make the other person the humiliated loser.

verb
  1. the simple past tense and past participle of humiliate.

Origin of humiliated

1
First recorded in 1760–70; humiliate + -ed2 for the adjective; humiliate + -ed1 for the verb

Other words from humiliated

  • un·hu·mil·i·at·ed, adjective

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