humiliate
verb (used with object)
to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity.
had humiliated
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past perfectof humiliate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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They said Shanghai Xiaoguo Culture Media Co and comic Li Haoshi had "humiliated the people's army".
From BBC ● May 17, 2023
After he went public, one of Tenet’s aides bitterly told me Kay was a “traitor” because he had humiliated the CIA.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2022
That struggle led him to brawl with schoolyard bullies, to memorize and recite Irish poetry, and to witness his mother threaten a nun who had humiliated him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
But, after six days of assessing her memories, The New Yorker reported, she said she was confident that Judge Kavanaugh was the man who had humiliated her.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2018
Without realizing it herself, she grafted the manner of the man who had humiliated her during the march onto Velutha.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
