Definition of "humiliating"

humiliating

/hjuːˈmɪliˌeɪtɪŋ/

adjective
comparative more humiliating, superlative most humiliating
1. Liable to humiliate, degrade, shame or embarrass someone.
  Quotations
  The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
  1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest
verb
1. present participle and gerund of humiliate
noun
countable and uncountable, plural humiliatings
1. An act of humiliation.
  Quotations
  We have various events or processes, therefore: cuttings, kickings, humiliatings, panickings, puncturings, smashings, blowings, and swellings. These are the things that really go on in the world and causation is perhaps just a label […]
  2013, Stephen Mumford, ‎Rani Lill Anjum, Causation: A Very Short Introduction (page 76)