He was humiliated in public.
その失敗は彼にとって大きな辱めだった。
That failure was a great disgrace for him.
sexual violation; rape
Euphemistic or literary term for sexual assault or rape. Often appears in the phrase 辱めを受ける in contexts of sexual violence.
See also: 辱めを受ける
彼女はその男から辱めを受けたと証言した。
She testified that she was sexually violated by that man.
humiliate; disgrace; put to shame · violate; sexually assault; rape
Standard kanji spelling.
Search-only kanji form; not used in normal writing.
Derived from the verb 辱める (はずかしめる, to humiliate or disgrace), which itself comes from 恥ずかしい (はずかしい, shameful) with the causative/transitive suffix める. The noun form 辱め nominalizes the verb stem.