brought low
Reduced to nothing
Brought low means reduced to a humble, weakened, or defeated state.
The phrase suggests someone or something once elevated—in status, pride, health, or fortune—has been diminished: A scandal brought low the powerful senator.
Disease, misfortune, or humiliation can bring a person low.
The expression carries a biblical gravity, implying dramatic fall from a higher position.
- humiliatedMade to feel worthless
- cut down to sizeDeflate someone's arrogance
- humbledReduced in status
- taken down a pegHad arrogance reduced
- degradedReduced in rank or quality
crushed · subdued · brought to heel · defeated · knocked down · abased · downcast · shamed · fallen from grace · downfall · diminished · demeaned · on one's knees · calamity · demoted · melancholy · marginalization · anguish
- humiliationashamed, abasement, embarrassed, chagrin, mortified
brought lowtriumphant
Joyfully victorious
victorious · dominant · supreme · conquering · prevailing
brought lowtriumphant
Joyfully victorious
uplifted · emboldened · elated · exultant · on top of the world
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