mortifying
Meaning of mortifying
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.
- Mortification; abstinence
mortifyings of the flesh
adjective
Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.
Information about mortifying
- The plural form of mortifying is: mortifyings.
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Hyphenation of mortifying
mor-ti-fy-ing
- It consists of 4 syllables and 10 chars.
- mortifying is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
mortifying synonyms
Meaning embarrassing:
Meaning demeaning:
demeaning, humbling, humiliating
Meaning :
macerate, demean, humiliate, shame
mortifying antonyms
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Translation of mortifying
- Italian: umiliante, mortificante
- French: humiliant, mortifiant
Words that rhyme with mortifying
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