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.