mortify🔊

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

(used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate. +

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. +

(historical) To grant in mortmain.

To lose vitality. +

To gangrene. +

To be subdued. +