mortifies

Meaning

third-person singular simple present indicative of mortify

mortify

1. (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
2. (transitive, usually) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
5. (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
6. (transitive) To scare.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To humble; to depress.
8. (historical, transitive) To grant in mortmain.
9. (intransitive) To lose vitality.
10. (archaic, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
11. (archaic, intransitive) To gangrene.
12. (intransitive) To be subdued.

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Translations

يكبح

demütigt

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