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.