Intimidation is making someone timid, fearful, or frightened so that they are compelled or controlled by threats. If you are afraid your husband will let you have it if you do something wrong, you are abused. The something wrong could be as simple as not picking up the shirts from the laundry, not getting home when you said you would, or buying a new book. When you live in genuine fear of making a Mistake, you're suffering emotional abuse. Humiliation is lowering a person in someone else's eyes to mortify or abuse them.
Some men humiliate their wife's clothes or appearance.
There's always a comment designed to make one person feel inadequate. Constant put-downs, insults, and derogatory statements can wear women down to the point where they lose all feelings of worth or sense of identity. The one who takes sadistic joy in humiliating others is an insecure person who feels that by belittling others he will feel better about himself. Humiliation of others is verbal abuse. Deprivation is withholding something from another that she or he needs or deserves.