mortify
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
(obsolete) To kill.
(obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
(obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
(obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
(Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
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