mortify
Meaning
- To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
- (obsolete) To kill.
- (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
- (obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
- (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- To grant in mortmain.
- To lose vitality.
- To gangrene.
- To be subdued.
Synonyms
encroach upon
quiten
shoot dead
be paralyzed
make a stroke
treat with contempt
chagrin humiliate
turn numb
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman mortifier, Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificō (“cause death”), from Latin mors (“death”) + -ficō (“-fy”).
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