mortify
Word Statistics
Academic vocabulary
Regularly used in writing and speech
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Academic vocabulary
- • Latin or Greek origin pattern
- • Standard complexity
1. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
"Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body."
2. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
"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."
3. To kill.
4. To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
5. To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
6. To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
7. To grant in mortmain.
8. To lose vitality.
9. To gangrene.
10. To be subdued.
Synonyms
Source: en.wiktionary.org
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