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verb
- 1. cause (someone) to feel very embarrassed or ashamed: "he was suitably mortified by his own idiocy" Similar Opposite
- 2. subdue (the body or its needs and desires) by self-denial or discipline: "they wish to return to heaven by mortifying the flesh" Similar Opposite
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to cause someone to feel extremely ashamed or embarrassed: He’s mortified by the fact that at 38 he still lives at home with his mother. (Definition of mortify from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of mortify. mortify.
1. : to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame. was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own Jane Austen. 2. : to subdue or deaden (the body, bodily appetites, etc.) especially by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort. mortified his body for spiritual purification. 3.
To mortify someone is to cause them extreme embarrassment. Your mother may not have been trying to mortify you when she showed up at your senior prom with a bunch of unicorn balloons, but she did. The root of the verb mortify is from the Latin word mors, which means “death.”
Mortify definition: to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.. See examples of MORTIFY used in a sentence.
to cause someone to feel extremely ashamed or embarrassed: He’s mortified by the fact that at 38 he still lives at home with his mother. (Definition of mortify from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of mortify.
Detailed meaning of mortify. When someone is mortified, they experience a profound sense of humiliation, often due to a public or deeply embarrassing incident or revelation. It involves feelings of intense shame or embarrassment that can be triggered by personal mistakes, failures, or socially inappropriate actions.
Definition of mortify verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
to subjugate (the body, passions, etc.) by abstinence, ascetic discipline, or self-inflicted suffering. Synonyms: restrain, subdue. Pathology. to affect with gangrene or necrosis. verb (used without object) , mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing. to practice mortification or disciplinary austerities.
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to punish (one's body) or control (one's physical desires and passions) by self-denial, fasting, etc., as a means of religious or ascetic discipline. 2. to cause to feel shame, humiliation, chagrin, etc.; injure the pride or self-respect of. 3. Rare. to cause (body tissue) to decay or become gangrenous. 4. to destroy the vitality or vigor of.
