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1. Causing awareness of your shortcomings
   "golf is a humbling game";
   - demeaning, humiliating, mortifying

1. Cause to be unpretentious
   "This experience will humble him"
    
2. Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
   "He humbled his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss";
   - humiliate, mortify, chagrin, abase

See also: undignified

Type of: alter, bruise, change, hurt, injure, modify, offend, spite, wound

Encyclopedia: Humble, Stephen