HUMBLE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
humble
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.
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- He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss.
Cause to be unpretentious.
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- This experience will humble him.
Of low birth or station ('base' is archaic in this sense).
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- Baseborn wretches with dirty faces.
- Of humble (or lowly) birth.
Marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful.
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- A humble apology.
- Essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski.
Used of unskilled work (especially domestic work).
Low or inferior in station or quality.
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- A humble cottage.
- A lowly parish priest.
- A modest man of the people.
- Small beginnings.
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