mortify

== English == === Etymology === From Anglo-Norman mortifier, Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificō (“cause death”), from Latin mors (“death”) + -ficō (“-fy”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmoɹtɪfaɪ/ === Verb === mortify (third-person singular simple present mortifies, present participle mortifying, simple past and past participle mortified) (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. [from 15th c.] Synonym: macerate (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate. [from 17th c.] Synonyms: demean, humiliate, shame Antonyms: dignify, honor (obsolete, transitive) To kill. [14th–17th c.] Synonyms: dispose of, terminate; see also Thesaurus:kill (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize. [14th–18th c.] Synonyms: abate, cancel out, diminish, weaken (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin. Synonyms: disturb, perturb; see also Thesaurus:upset 22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations (transitive) To scare. Synonyms: frighten; see also Thesaurus:frighten Near-synonym: petrify (obsolete, transitive) To humble; to depress. (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain. 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB): the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary (intransitive) To lose vitality. Synonyms: darken, die, fade, wither (archaic, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic. [15th–18th c.] Synonyms: fester, necrotize, rankle, rot, sphacelate, decay (archaic, intransitive) To gangrene. Synonyms: fester, putrefy (intransitive) To be subdued. Synonyms: abate, diminish, quell, subside, wane ==== Related terms ==== mortification ==== Translations ====