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Adjective humbled has 1 sense
- broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low - subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit"
Antonym: proud (indirect, via humble)
Verb humble has 2 senses
- humble - cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him"
--1 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
--2 is one way to hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot humble Sue
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