Adjective humbling has 1 sense
- demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying - causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
Antonym: dignified (indirect, via undignified)
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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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