Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An erroneous form of umbles, originally numbles. See humble-pie and numbles.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun plural Entrails of a deer.

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  • noun archaic Entrails of a deer.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of humble.

Etymologies

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From numbles

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See humble

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Examples

  • Safin humbles Sampras in straight sets for 1st Grand Slam title

    USA TODAY Latest news 2000

  • 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

  • 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 2003

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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