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Mortify

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate.

v. To discipline (one's body and physical appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.

verb-intransitive. To practice ascetic discipline or self-denial of the body and its appetites.

verb-intransitive. Pathology To undergo mortification; become gangrenous or necrosed.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

v. To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.

v. To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.

v. To affect with vexation, chagrin; to depress.

v. To humiliate deeply, especially by injuring the pride of; to embarrass painfully; to humble.

verb-intransitive. To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.

verb-intransitive. To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.

verb-intransitive. To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To destroy the life of; destroy the vitality of (a part of a living body); affect with gangrene.

To deaden; render insensible; make apathetic.

To reduce in strength or force; weaken.

To subdue, restrain, reduce, or bring into subjection by abstinence or rigorous severities; bring under subjection by ascetic discipline or regimen; subject or restrain in any way, for moral or religious reasons.

To humiliate; depress; affect with vexation or chagrin.

In chem. and metallurgy, to destroy or diminish the active powers or characteristic qualities of.

In Scots law, to dispose of by mortification. See mortification, 3.

Synonyms To shame, chagrin. See mortification.

To lose vitality and organic structure while yet a portion of the living body; become gangrenous.

To become languid; fall into decay.

To be subdued; die away: said of inordinate appetites, etc.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. hold within limits and control

v. undergo necrosis

v. practice self-denial of one's body and appetites

v. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

Word Usage

"The word mortify here is, literally, to make to die."

Verb Form

mortified mortifies mortifying

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

waste rot check condition subdue train crucify discipline

Cross Reference

Embarrass

Variant

mortified

Form

mortification

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

abase humble depress gangrene

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

fortify