intransitive verb. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.

intransitive verb. To discipline (one's of the body and the appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially for religious reasons.

intransitive verb. To practice mortification of the body and its appetites.

intransitive verb. To undergo mortification; become gangrenous.

To destroy the life of; destroy the vitality of (a part of a living body); affect with gangrene.

To deaden; render insensible; make apathetic.

To reduce in strength or force; weaken.

To subdue, restrain, reduce, or bring into subjection by abstinence or rigorous severities; bring under subjection by ascetic discipline or regimen; subject or restrain in any way, for moral or religious reasons.

To humiliate; depress; affect with vexation or chagrin.

In chem. and metallurgy, to destroy or diminish the active powers or characteristic qualities of.

In Scots law, to dispose of by mortification. See mortification, 3.

Synonyms To shame, chagrin. See mortification.

To lose vitality and organic structure while yet a portion of the living body; become gangrenous.

To become languid; fall into decay.

To be subdued; die away: said of inordinate appetites, etc.

intransitive verb. To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.

intransitive verb. To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.

intransitive verb. To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.

transitive verb. To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

transitive verb. To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.

transitive verb. To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.

transitive verb. To affect with vexation, chagrin; to depress.

transitive verb. To humiliate deeply, especially by injuring the pride of; to embarrass painfully; to humble.

verb. hold within limits and control

verb. undergo necrosis

verb. practice self-denial of one's body and appetites

verb. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

"The word mortify here is, literally, to make to die."

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