mortified

Meaning of mortified

adjective

Acutely embarrassed.

verb
  1. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
    Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
  2. (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.
  3. To kill.
  4. To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
  5. To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
  6. To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
  7. To grant in mortmain.
  8. To lose vitality.
  9. To gangrene.
  10. 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:

gangrenous

Meaning embarrassed:

embarrassed, humiliated

Meaning :

macerate, demean, humiliate, shame

mortified antonyms

Meaning :

dignify, honor

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