mortifies
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Definitions ofmortifies
- To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
Example: "Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body."
- (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
Example: "I was so mortified I could have died right there; instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again."
- To kill.
- To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
- To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
- To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- To grant in mortmain.
- To lose vitality.
- To gangrene.
- To be subdued.
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