noun. A feeling of shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.

noun. Discipline of the body and the appetites by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially when undertaken for religious reasons.

noun. Death or decay of living tissue; gangrene.

noun. The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified.

noun. The act of subduing the passions and appetites by penance, abstinence, or painful severities infiicted on the body; a severe penance.

noun. Humiliation; vexation; the state of being humbled or depressed, as by disappointment or vexation; chagrin.

noun. (d ) In chem. and metallurgy, the destruction of active qualities (now called sickening both in the United States and in Australia, with especial reference to quicksilver and amalgamation).

noun. In Scots law, the act of disposing of lands for religious or charitable purposes.

noun. That which mortifies; a cause of chagrin, humiliation, or vexation.

noun. In Scots law, lands given formerly to the church for religious purposes, or since the Reformation for charitable or public uses.

noun. Synonyms Vexation, Chagrin, Mortification. These words advance in strength of meaning, as to both cause and effect. Vexation is a comparatively petty feeling, produced by small but annoying or irritating disappointments, slights, etc. Chagrin is acute disappointment and humiliation, perhaps after confident expectation. Mortification is chagrin so great as to seem a death to one's pride or self-respect. See tease and anger.

noun. The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified.

noun. The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.

noun. Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.

noun. Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, abstinence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.

noun. Deep humiliation or shame, from a loss of pride; painful embarassment, usually arising from exposure of a mistake; chagrin; vexation.

noun. That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.

noun. A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.

noun. The act of mortifying.

noun. A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.

noun. The death of part of the body.

noun. an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect

noun. the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)

noun. strong feelings of embarrassment

noun. (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)

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