What's the difference between abash and humiliate?

Abash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Later on, it was my mum who would bang on about people being lesbians and I would be pleased but still rather abashed to hear the words.
  • (2) Do not feel abashed, faithful correspondent, for it is not your fault.
  • (3) Hytner seems genuinely abashed at the suggestion he's made it look easy.
  • (4) "I saw Katie Price here on TV," she says, a touch abashed.

Humiliate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
  • (2) Nickname: SuperSarko the Omnipresident Quote: "What made me who I am now is the sum of all the humiliations suffered during childhood."
  • (3) No one deserves to walk out of the theatre feeling scared, humiliated or rejected.
  • (4) Under Xi some of the party’s most powerful figures have been humiliated and jailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of party officials disciplined across the country.
  • (5) In a ­ recent ­article , Martin Jacques comments on how New Labour, which built its fortunes on "there being no alternative", is now being forced into the humiliating circumstances of having to find one.
  • (6) During interviews, married couples experiencing infertility reported emotional reactions such as sadness, depression, anger, confusion, desperation, hurt, embarrassment, and humiliation.
  • (7) Sarkozy, 59, had been tipped to win the leadership vote and indeed gained a clear majority, which avoided the humiliation of a second round of polling.
  • (8) What hard work that must be, especially if the humiliation is so public!
  • (9) The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
  • (10) There was no repeat of last season's humiliation but it told of another Liverpool exertion against Oldham Athletic that Brendan Rodgers took pride only in a competitive Anfield appearance for his son, Anton.
  • (11) It became clear, as Bourguiba went on, that he had two objectives in mind: to deflate and mildly humiliate the young Nasserist Libyan, and to outline his vision of the Arab world.
  • (12) 1.49am BST Michael Aston writes: Gota feeling this is going to be a thrashing, a major and total beat down... After watching the Spurs humiliate the Heat and Oranje murder Spain...this has a horror show Full moon Friday the 13th nightmare for NY written all over it.....then again, triple OT would be fun too Triple OT?
  • (13) She isn't sure – though, like Freud, she defines her anxiety as a threat that is objectless, and located in the future – such as ruination or humiliation (unlike fear, which is a response to a specific and immediate threat to one's safety).
  • (14) "The more of us who stand up, the less we can be humiliated.
  • (15) This kind of humiliation is already felt by many in this country.
  • (16) Detainees have seen their time allowed outside cells slashed, and been forced to undergo humiliating body cavity searches if they want to speak to lawyers, it has been claimed.
  • (17) What promised to be a day of utter humiliation had turned into yet another day of glory.
  • (18) The tribunal said the conduct had "the effect of violating the claimant's dignity or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment".
  • (19) Brown made mincemeat of a succession of shadow chancellors, taunting them with the contrast between the strong growth and healthy public finances under Labour and the humiliation visited upon John Major's government on Black Wednesday.
  • (20) A later speaker, Salah el-Ghazal, referred to Gaddafi's "humiliating" death, saying: "This is the humiliating end that God wanted to set as example for anyone who practices the worst forms of injustice … against their people," he said.