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"ref": "1902, Mark Twain, chapter 1, in A Double Barrelled Detective Story",
"text": "Any other man in my place would have gone to his house and shot him down like a dog. I wanted to do it, and was minded to do it, but a better thought came to me: to put him to shame; to break his heart; to kill him by inches.",
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"ref": "1916 July 2, Rabindranath Tagore, The Spirit of Japan: A Lecture",
"text": "[Europe] has ever carried her own standard of perfection, by which we can measure her falls and gauge her degrees of failure, by which we can call her before her own tribunal and put her to shame,—the shame which is the sign of the true pride of nobleness.",
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"ref": "2016, Maya Oppenheim, “Justin Trudeau shuts down sarcastic reporter with an impromptu explanation of quantum computing”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2018-01-02",
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"To humiliate; to disgrace."
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"(transitive) To humiliate; to disgrace."
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"roman": "xiūrǔ, xiūrù",
"sense": "to humiliate; disgrace",
"word": "羞辱"
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"ref": "1911, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, chapter 3, in Our Androcentric Culture",
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"ref": "2013 June 1, Bruce Weber, “Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie Bunker’s Better Angel, Dies at 90”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-01-02",
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"(transitive) To outdo thoroughly; to surpass; to outperform; to show up."
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"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2013 June 1, Bruce Weber, “Jean Stapleton, Who Played Archie Bunker’s Better Angel, Dies at 90”, in New York Times, retrieved 2018-01-02",
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"sense": "to humiliate; disgrace",
"word": "羞辱"
},
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"sense": "to humiliate; disgrace",
"word": "saattaa häpeään"
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"sense": "to humiliate; disgrace",
"word": "megszégyenít"
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"sense": "to humiliate; disgrace",
"word": "hane"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to outdo thoroughly",
"word": "saattaa häpeään"
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