Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An erroneous form of
umbles , originallynumbles . Seehumble-pie and numbles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Entrails of a deer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic Entrails of a deer.
- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
humble .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Safin humbles Sampras in straight sets for 1st Grand Slam title
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The concurrence of my friends with my small offerings cannot but feel comfortable and encouraging to a poor timorous creature like me; but the awful consideration of ranking among the servants who speak in the Lord's name humbles me to the dust.
Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley Yeardley, John, 1786-1858 1860
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Besides, there is suffering and suffering; degrading, humiliating suffering such as humbles me — hunger, for instance — my benefactor will perhaps allow me; but when you come to higher suffering — for an idea, for instance — he will very rarely admit that, perhaps because my face strikes him as not at all what he fancies a man should have who suffers for an idea.
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Besides, there is suffering and suffering; degrading, humiliating suffering such as humbles me — hunger, for instance — my benefactor will perhaps allow me; but when you come to higher suffering — for an idea, for instance — he will very rarely admit that, perhaps because my face strikes him as not at all what he fancies a man should have who suffers for an idea.
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851
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If you go into a studio, and that's where Nat King Cole recorded it kind of humbles you.
The Line Of Best Fit Jude Clarke 2010
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If you go into a studio, and that's where Nat King Cole recorded it kind of humbles you.
The Line Of Best Fit Jude Clarke 2010
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Comparing the Viper (with a V10, idiot) to a Corvette (standard V8) and saying the Viper 'humbles' the Corvette is like comparing the covered wagon to the Space Shuttle!.
The Car Connection 2009
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Comparing the Viper (with a V10, idiot) to a Corvette (standard V8) and saying the Viper 'humbles' the Corvette is like comparing the covered wagon to the Space Shuttle!.
The Car Connection 2009
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Comparing the Viper (with a V10, idiot) to a Corvette (standard V8) and saying the Viper 'humbles' the Corvette is like comparing the covered wagon to the Space Shuttle!.
The Car Connection 2009
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Beatrice Bowles, a San Francisco writer who has been dancing tango for nine years with an intensity that humbles most Buenos Aires women who know her, says that sure, I can spend nine hundred dollars on a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes, but what's that going to get me?
Terence Clarke: The Sweep of an Elegant Toe: Comme il faut, Buenos Aires Terence Clarke 2011
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