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Verb
S: (v) humble (cause to be unpretentious) "This experience will humble him"
S: (v) humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of) "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
Adjective
S: (adj) humble, low, lowly, modest, small (low or inferior in station or quality) "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings"
S: (adj) humble (marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful) "a humble apology"; "essentially humble...and self-effacing, he achieved the highest formal honors and distinctions"- B.K.Malinowski
S: (adj) base, baseborn, humble, lowly (of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)) "baseborn wretches with dirty faces"; "of humble (or lowly) birth"