Usually means: Cause to feel embarrassed, ashamed.
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  1. mortify: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mortify: Merriam-Webster
  3. mortify, mortify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mortify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mortify: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mortify: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mortify, mortify: Wordnik
  8. mortify: Wiktionary
  9. mortify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mortify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mortify: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mortify: Dictionary.com
  13. mortify: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Mortify: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. mortify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. mortify: Rhymezone
  17. mortify: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mortify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. mortify: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mortify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mortify: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. mortify: Online Etymology Dictionary

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  1. mortify: Legal dictionary

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  1. mortify: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mortify: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. mortify: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mortify)

verb:  (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
verb:  (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
verb:  (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
verb:  (intransitive) To lose vitality.
verb:  (intransitive) To gangrene.
verb:  (intransitive) To be subdued.

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