Once social change begins it can not be reversed. You can not un-educate the person who has learned to read. You can not humiliate the person who feels pride. You can not oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.
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Humiliate
//hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪt//
Synonyms for "humiliate" (126 found)
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Closest matches (26)
Strong matches (37)
Related words (63)
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6 entriesTranslations
126 translations across 63 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- poshtëroj verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Arabic
3 entries- أَخْزَى verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- أَذَلَّ verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- اِسْتَذَلَّ verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Armenian
1 entries- նվաստացնել verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- alçaltmaq verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Belarusian
2 entries- прыні́зіць verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- прыніжа́ць verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Bulgarian
2 entries- унижа́ verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- унижа́вам verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Catalan
1 entries- humiliar verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 侮辱 verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- 欺侮 verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- 污辱 verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- 羞辱 verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Czech
2 entries- ponižovat verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- ponížit verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Danish
2 entries- fornedre verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- ydmyge verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Dutch
2 entries- vernederen verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- verootmoedigen verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Esperanto
1 entries- humiligi verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Estonian
1 entries- alandama verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Finnish
1 entries- nöyryyttää verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
French
1 entries- humilier verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Galician
1 entries- humillar verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Georgian
2 entries- დამდაბლება verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- დამცირება verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
German
3 entries- beschämen verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- demütigen verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- erniedrigen verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Greek
3 entries- ντροπιάζω verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- ρεζιλεύω verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- ταπεινώνω verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Hindi
2 entries- नीचा दिखाना verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- विनीत करना verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Hungarian
1 entries- megaláz verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Icelandic
3 entries- auðmýkja verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- lítillækka verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- niðurlægja verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Ido
1 entries- humileskar verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Indonesian
1 entries- membuat malu verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Irish
2 entries- náirigh verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- uirísligh verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Italian
2 entries- avvilire verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- umiliare verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Japanese
3 entries- 凹ます verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- 屈辱を与える verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- 辱める verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Kazakh
4 entries- басыну verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- кемсіту verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- қор қылу verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- қорлау verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Khmer
1 entries- បញ្ចុះ verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Korean
3 entries- 굴욕감을 주다 verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- 굴욕을 주다 verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- 모욕하다 verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Kyrgyz
2 entries- басынтуу verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- кемситүү verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Lao
2 entries- ຖ່ອມ verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- ເຮັດໃຫ້ເສັຽຍົດ verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Latin
1 entries- humiliō verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Latvian
1 entries- pazemot verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Lithuanian
2 entries- pažeminti verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- žeminti verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Macedonian
2 entries- понижи verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- понижува verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Malayalam
2 entries- അപമാനിക്കുക verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- പരിഹസിക്കുക verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Mauritian Creole
1 entries- imilie verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Mongolian
2 entries- гутаах verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- доромжлох verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Māori
1 entries- whakapāpaku verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- fornedre verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- ydmyke verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- audmjuka verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Occitan
1 entries- umiliar verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Persian
1 entries- تحقیر کردن verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Polish
4 entries- poniżać verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- poniżyć verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- upokarzać verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- upokorzyć verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Portuguese
1 entries- humilhar verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Romanian
2 entries- a jigni verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- a umili verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Russian
4 entries- опуска́ть verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- опусти́ть verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- уни́зить verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- унижа́ть verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- ponizívati verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- ponižávati verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- poníziti verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- unizívati verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Slovak
2 entries- ponižovať verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- ponížiť verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Slovene
2 entries- ponižati verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- poniževati verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Spanish
2 entries- humillar verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- papear verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Swedish
2 entries- förnedra verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- förödmjuka verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Tajik
1 entries- таҳқир кардан verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Tatar
1 entries- кимсетергә verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Thai
2 entries- ฉีกหน้า verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- หมิ่น verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Turkish
2 entries- aşağılamak verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- utandırmak verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Ukrainian
2 entries- прини́жувати verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- прини́зити verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Urdu
1 entries- ذَلِیل کَرْنا verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Uzbek
2 entries- kamsitmoq verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- xoʻrlamoq verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Vietnamese
3 entries- làm nhục verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- lăng nhục verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
- sỉ nhục verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Volapük
1 entries- mükükön verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Yiddish
1 entries- פֿאַרשעמען verb (to injure a person's dignity and self-respect)
Sample sentences
13 total sentences available.
Where did you humiliate them?
Source: tatoeba (1885517)
I just want to humiliate Tom.
Source: tatoeba (2013552)
I don't want to humiliate Tom.
Source: tatoeba (2013904)
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