mortify

Meaning of mortify

verb

To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
(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.
To kill.
To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
To grant in mortmain.
To lose vitality.
To gangrene.
To be subdued.

Information about mortify

It is a verb.
The plural form of mortify is: mortifies.
Languages in which mortify is used:
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Hyphenation of mortify

mor-tify

It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
mortify is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

mortify synonyms

Meaning subdue:

Meaning humiliate:

humiliate, chagrin, humble, abase

Meaning necrose:

necrose, gangrene, sphacelate

Meaning :

macerate, demean, shame

mortify antonyms

Meaning :

Translation of mortify

German: demoralisieren, kränken, demütigen, entmutigen
Italian: umiliare, schiacciare, mortificare, demoralizzare
Spanish: mortificar, desmoralizar, humillar

Anagrams of mortify

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