MORTIFY

mortify

Verb

  1. To kill.
  2. To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
  3. To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
  4. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
    Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
  5. 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.
  6. To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
  7. To grant in mortmain


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