辱める — meaning in English

English meaning

• humiliate verb To make someone feel ashamed or foolish, often publicly.
• mortify verb To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

Senses

辱める is used for these senses in English:

• humiliate (transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
• mortify (transitive, usually, used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate. [from 17th c.]

mortify — full definition

1. verb To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
2. verb To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
3. verb To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
4. verb To affect with vexation or chagrin.

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