mortified
Meaning of mortified
adjective
Acutely embarrassed.
verb- To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
- (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
I was so mortified I could have died right there; instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.
- To kill.
- To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
- To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
- To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- To grant in mortmain.
- To lose vitality.
- To gangrene.
- To be subdued.
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Hyphenation of mortified
mor-ti-fied
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- mortified is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
mortified synonyms
Meaning gangrenous:
Meaning embarrassed:
Meaning :
macerate, demean, humiliate, shame
mortified antonyms
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