1. make (someone) feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and self-respect, especially publicly:"you'll humiliate me in front of the whole school!"
Word Originmid 16th century (earlier (late Middle English) as humiliation): from late Latin humiliat- ‘made humble’, from the verb humiliare, from humilis (see humble). The original meaning was ‘bring low’; the current sense dates from the mid 18th century.
