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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▸ 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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humiliate,
abase,
chagrin,
subdue,
gangrene,
humble,
sphacelate,
necrose,
macerate,
deny oneself,
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