Word · CEFR B2 · Frequency #9886
humiliate
使丢脸；使蒙羞；羞辱
cause someone to feel ashamed or lose the respect of others; hurt the pride of
- 1.
To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
使蒙羞；损害其尊严和自尊。
- 2.
To make humble; to lower in condition or status.
使谦卑；降低地位或身份。
- 3.
To defeat overwhelmingly.
彻底击败；压倒性打败。
使蒙羞；损害其尊严和自尊。；使谦卑；降低地位或身份。；彻底击败；压倒性打败。；使丢脸；使蒙羞
In use
The coach humiliated the player in front of the whole team.
She felt humiliated when her colleagues laughed at her mistake.
He would never humiliate anyone, even in a heated argument.
humiliate + someone
The boss humiliated him in front of everyone.
老板当着大家的面羞辱了他。
be humiliated (by someone/something)
常用被动结构，表示遭受羞辱。
She felt humiliated by the criticism.
她因批评而感到羞辱。
humiliate someone by doing something
by后接动名词，表示羞辱的方式。
Connections
Collocations
- humiliate someone
- 使某人丢脸
- He humiliated me in front of everyone.他在众人面前使我丢脸。
- feel humiliated
- 感到羞辱
- She felt humiliated by his comments.她因他的评论感到羞辱。
- be humiliated by
- 被...羞辱
- The team was humiliated by a 5-0 defeat.该队以0-5的比分被羞辱。
- humiliate oneself
- 使自己丢脸
- He humiliated himself by crying during the speech.他在演讲中哭泣，使自己丢脸。
- publicly humiliate
- 公开羞辱
- The teacher publicly humiliated the student for being late.老师因学生迟到而公开羞辱他。
- deliberately humiliate
Learner notes
Memory Tip
对比“humble”（谦卑）和“humiliate”（羞辱），想象过分谦卑导致屈辱。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：社交场合、冲突场景、职场环境 通常用于正式或较严肃的语境，多指在公开场合使某人丢脸或羞辱某人。
Pronunciation & Spelling
These words all end with the spelling '-iate', but their pronunciations vary in stress and vowel sounds. For example, 'humiliate' stresses the second syllable (/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt/), while 'radiate' and 'deviate' stress the first. None are perfect rhymes with 'humiliate' because the stressed vowel and following consonants differ.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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