mortify

/ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/

To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.

(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.

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.

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