資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
humbled
adj : subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought
low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: {broken},
{crushed}, {humiliated}, {low}]