mortifying

/M AO1 R T AH0 F AY0 IH0 NG/

verb

1
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
“Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.”
2
(usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
“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.”
3
To kill.
4
To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
5
To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
6
To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
7
To grant in mortmain.
8
To lose vitality.
9
To gangrene.
10
To be subdued.

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