mortify
Verb
Verb Forms: mortified, mortifying, mortifies
- To cause deep humiliation or shame.
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
- hold within limits and control
- "mortify the flesh"
- cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
- undergo necrosis
- To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- 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.
Examples
- 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.
- It would MORTIFY any Words With Friends player to miss a seven-letter word.
- Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
Origin / Etymology
From Anglo-Norman mortifier, Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificō (“cause death”), from Latin mors (“death”) + -ficō (“-fy”).
Synonyms
abase, chagrin, crucify, gangrene, humble, humiliate, necrose, sphacelate, subdue, abate, agitate, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bother, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, cancel out, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, darken, dash, deactivate, dead, decay, demean, demolish, destroy, die, diminish, discompose, disconcert, dispatch, dispose of, disturb, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, enturbulate, eradicate, ex, exterminate, fade, fester, finish, finish off, flatten, grease, knock off, lay waste to, macerate, make away with, mortify, necrotize, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, perturb, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out, put six feet under, put someone out of their misery, put to sleep, putrefy, quell, rankle, ravage, rot, rub out, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, shame, slaughter, slay, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, subside, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, throw off balance, top, top off, torpedo, unsettle, upset, wane, waste, wax, weaken, wet, whack, wipe out, wither, wreck
Scrabble Score: 15
mortify: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmortify: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mortify: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary