mortify

/'mɔ:tifai/
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Definition

  1. Verb (transitive):

    • To cause to feel shame, humiliation, or wounded pride: To inflict a deep sense of embarrassment or disgrace upon someone.
    • To subdue or discipline (especially bodily desires) by self-denial or ascetic practices: To bring under control through abstinence or severe treatment.

  2. Verb (intransitive):

    • (Medical/Pathology) To undergo necrosis; to become gangrenous: To die and decay, referring to body tissue.
Usage Examples

  • Verb (transitive - to cause shame):

    • His public reprimand mortified her. (His public reprimand caused her to feel deep shame.)
    • It mortifies me to think of my mistake. (It causes me great shame to think of my mistake.)

  • Verb (transitive - to subdue desires):

    • The monk sought to mortify the flesh through fasting. (The monk sought to subdue bodily desires through fasting.)
    • She mortified her vanity by wearing simple clothes. (She subdued her vanity by wearing simple clothes.)

  • Verb (intransitive - medical):

    • Without blood flow, the tissue began to mortify. (Without blood flow, the tissue began to die and decay.)
Advanced Usage
  • "to be mortified": A common passive construction expressing a state of acute embarrassment or shame.
    • She was mortified when she realized her error.
  • "mortifying" (adjective): Describing something that causes intense shame or humiliation.
    • It was a mortifying experience for everyone involved.
Variants and Related Words
  • Mortification (noun): The feeling of shame, humiliation, or the process of subduing desires.
    • His face was red with mortification.
  • Mortified (adjective): Deeply ashamed or embarrassed.
    • He looked absolutely mortified.
  • Mortifyingly (adverb): In a manner that causes mortification.
    • The plan failed mortifyingly quickly.
Synonyms
  • Humiliate: To make someone feel ashamed and foolish by injuring their dignity and pride.
  • Chasten: To subdue or restrain; to correct by punishment or suffering.
  • Necrose (for the medical sense): To undergo necrosis.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions

(This word does not commonly form standard phrasal verbs. Its meanings are expressed through direct usage.)

Related Idioms
  • "Mortify the flesh": An idiom referring to the practice of asceticism, using physical discipline or deprivation to subdue bodily passions and desires.
    • Some religious traditions encourage followers to mortify the flesh.
Verb
  1. undergo necrosis
    • the tissue around the wound necrosed
  2. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
    • He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss
  3. hold within limits and control
    • subdue one's appetites
    • mortify the flesh
  4. practice self-denial of one's body and appetites

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