MORTIFY
mortify
Verb
- To kill.
- To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
- To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
- To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
- To embarrass, to humiliate.
- 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 affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- To grant in mortmain
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