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Mortify meaning
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.
Example sentences (6)
Large-scale protests in Hong Kong on that sacred date would mortify the Chinese government.
In a classic dad move, he suggested he wants to mortify his kids.
Jackson’s grandparents feel that a relationship should be between and man and a woman, and the fact that Jackson is dating a woman seems to mortify them.
Disguise it, struggle with it, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history.
In cases like this, the legs and feet of the criminals begin to swell and mortify at the expiration of three or four days; some are said to live in this state for a fortnight, and expire at last from fatigue and mortification.
Self-mummification main Monks whose bodies remain incorrupt without any traces of deliberate mummification are venerated by some Buddhists who believe they successfully were able to mortify their flesh to death.