humiliating defeat

collocation in English

meaningsofhumiliatinganddefeat

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humiliating
adjective
uk
/hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪ.tɪŋ/us
/hjuːˈmɪl.i.eɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
making you feel ashamed ...
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defeat
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈfiːt/us
/dɪˈfiːt/
the fact of losing against someone in a fight or competition, or when someone or something is made ...
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(Definition ofhumiliatinganddefeatfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhumiliating defeat

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Can it be because you know you would suffer ahumiliatingdefeat?
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Unless they are prepared to respond to that, they will suffer ahumiliatingdefeat.
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Is he prepared to accept that if he does not prevent those closures it will be ahumiliatingdefeatfor him?
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We have had onehumiliatingdefeatby trying to "go it alone".
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No one likes to receive thehumiliatingdefeatwhich he has had to suffer on this clause.
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They are scorching the earth in theirhumiliatingdefeat.
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They have not sustained ahumiliatingdefeat.
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Is she aware that it is because that young man faces such ahumiliatingdefeatthat she is ensuring that she has nothing to do with it?
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This would not be ahumiliatingdefeat.
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In the event, however, the emperor's own campaign would result in ahumiliatingdefeat.
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I never realised how sweet revenge could be, especially when it is for such ahumiliatingdefeatas ours 12 months ago.
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To further exacerbate his feelings, he suffers ahumiliatingdefeatin the next election.
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Goulart replied that doing so would be ahumiliatingdefeatfor him, making him a decorative president.
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The creature deals them ahumiliatingdefeat.
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His final campaign in 1996 resulted in a 4-7 record which included several humiliating defeats.
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