Humbled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Humbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Humbling}.]
     1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or
        exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
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              Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's
              plagues
              Have humbled to all strokes.          --Shak.
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              The genius which humbled six marshals of France.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     2. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or
        arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make
        meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
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              Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of
              God, that he may exalt you.           --1 Pet. v. 6.
  
     Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace;
          degrade.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  humbled
       adj : subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought
             low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: {broken},
              {crushed}, {humiliated}, {low}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "humbled":
     abashed, abject, apologetic, ashamed, blushing, bowed down, broken,
     brought down, brought low, chagrined, chapfallen, conquered,
     contrite, crestfallen, crushed, diminished, domesticated,
     embarrassed, felled, flattened, hangdog, housebroke, housebroken,
     humble, humiliated, in the dust, lowered, made to grovel, mastered,
     melted, mortified, out of countenance, penitent, penitential,
     penitentiary, put down, quelled, red-faced, reduced, repentant,
     set down, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sheepish, smashed,
     softened, subdued, subjugated, suppressed, tamed, touched,
     vanquished