adjective
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Acutely embarrassed.
verb
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To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
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Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
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(usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
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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.
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To kill.
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To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
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To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
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To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
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To grant in mortmain.
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To lose vitality.
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To gangrene.
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To be subdued.
Examples of mortified in a Sentence
This letter grieved and mortified Nicholas.
He did not mention this to his daughter, but Natasha noticed her father's nervousness and anxiety and felt mortified by it.
And he was mortified by a more erious charge than murmurs about superfluity of zeal.
I am totally mortified.
Deeply mortified by his failure to relieve Breda, which was blockaded by Spinola, Maurice fell seriously ill, and died on the 23rd of April 1625.
Jackson held the goblet, mortified, yet he had never felt such a hunger, nay––lust, as he did for the contents.
He began life at the bar, where he obtained considerable practice; but the loss of an important suit, in which he was counsel for a Neapolitan noble against the grand duke of Tuscany, and in which he had entirely mistaken the force of a leading document, so mortified him that he withdrew from the legal world.
Though deeply mortified at the loss of the command, Wellesley in his devotion to duty moved the troops on his own responsibility from Trincomalee to Bombay, from the conviction that, if they were to be of any use in Egypt, it was absolutely necessary that they should provision at Bombay without delay.
Louis, who had hoped that Aquitaine would descend to his daughters, was mortified and alarmed by the Angevin marriage; all the more so when Henry of Anjou succeeded to the English crown in 1154.
Essex, though bitterly mortified, at once threw all his energies into the endeavour to procure for Bacon the solicitorship; but in this case also, his method of dealing, which was wholly opposed to Bacon's advice,' seemed to irritate the queen.
Toilet paper hanging off the back of her pants might not embarrass one teen, while another teen girl might be mortified if this happens to her.
Drawing nearer, he recognized in the Rhetor a man he knew, Smolyaninov, and it mortified him to think that the newcomer was an acquaintance--he wished him simply a brother and a virtuous instructor.
If you're dealing with a lot of easily bored teenagers, especially those who are mortified when their parents start getting silly, you'll have to construct some clever games to keep them on their toes and, hopefully, interested.
He considered himself entitled to office when his party was in power, and was decidedly mortified at not getting it from Mr. Gladstone.
Although it's really hard to tell whether a celebrity exposure is by accident, when the celeb is truly mortified or threatens legal action against the perpetrator, you can usually bet that the exposure was a complete accident.
Even if your teenager is mortified by the idea of bringing a "pre-used" notebook to school, you can still keep a few around the house for taking down phone messages, making to-do lists and so on.
Jackson held the goblet, mortified, yet he had never felt such a hunger, nay––lust, as he did for the contents.
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Traditionally, whoever was the first girl in the class to wear a bra was mortified.
The Jesuits were much mortified by this Jansenist miracle, which, as it was officially recognized, they could not openly deny.