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mortify   (TTS Sound)

The verb mortify has 4 senses

• mortify -- (practice self-denial of one's body and appetites)


• mortify, subdue, crucify -- (hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh")


• humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase -- (cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss")


• necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate -- (undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed")