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Humbled vs Prevailed - What's the difference?

humbled | prevailed |

As verbs the difference between humbled and prevailed

is that humbled is (humble) while prevailed is (prevail).

As an adjective humbled

is feeling the positive effects of humility.

humbled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Feeling the positive effects of humility.
  • I felt so humbled to help out during the disaster relief appeal.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (humble)
  • prevailed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (prevail)

  • prevail

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be superior in strength, dominance, influence or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.
  • Red colour prevails in the Canadian flag.
  • * , Exodus 17:11
  • And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed'; and when he let down his hand, Amalek ' prevailed .
  • To be current, widespread or predominant; to have currency or prevalence.
  • In his day and age, such practices prevailed all over Europe.
  • To succeed in persuading]] or [[induce, inducing.
  • I prevailed on him to wait.

    Derived terms

    * cooler heads will prevail

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