Word Finder - mortifying

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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.

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Mortification; abstinence

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mortifyings of the flesh

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Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.

Having your pants fall down is bad enough, but what is mortifying is that Greg is wearing Wonder Woman underwear-because he was too lazy to do laundry.

He harried the Limousin and laid siege to the castle of Chalus; while directing an assault he was wounded in the shoulder by a crossbow bolt, and, the wound mortifying from unskilful treatment or his own want of care, he died on the 6th of April 1199.

At 15s 6d for the former, and 25s the latter, it is not the world's cheapest way of mortifying the flesh.

The doctor and valet lifted the cloak with which he was covered and, making wry faces at the noisome smell of mortifying flesh that came from the wound, began examining that dreadful place.

Whether partially or all the way down, having a bikini oops exposing your nether region can be mortifying.

One of the worst mortifying bra stories for a girl at school is the front closing bra that suddenly breaks.

But neither the British nor the French could afford to divert great military resources from the main theatre of war in western Europe to the Aegean, and so the struggle for the Straits ended in mortifying discomfiture for the Allies.

And whereas if a back-closing bra suddenly snaps, a friend can publicly assist with getting it closed again, you'll only draw more mortifying attention if it's a front closer.

She yielded, after a struggle, also to the appointment of Whigs to bishoprics, the most mortifying submission of all.