verb
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To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
example
Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
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(usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
example
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.