mortify

Meaning

  1. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
  2. To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
  3. (obsolete) To kill.
  4. (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
  5. (obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
  6. (obsolete) 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.

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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