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mortify🔊

To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

📑 Synonyms: macerate

To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.

📑 Synonyms: demean humiliate shame
💬 Quotations
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.

📑 Synonyms: dispose of terminate

(obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

📑 Synonyms: abate cancel out diminish weaken

(obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.

(obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.

📑 Synonyms: disturb perturb

(Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

To lose vitality.

📑 Synonyms: darken die fade wither

To gangrene.

📑 Synonyms: fester putrefy

To be subdued.

📑 Synonyms: abate diminish quell subside wane
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