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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. Here take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak. The genius which humbled six marshals of France. --Macaulay. 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. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: humbled adj : subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: {broken}, {crushed}, {humiliated}, {low}]
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