mortify

Short definition from Wiktionary

Verb

1. 1
   To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
2. 2
   To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
3. 3
   To kill.
4. 4
   To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
5. 5
   To affect with vexation or chagrin.
6. 6
   To scare.
7. 7
   To humble; to depress.
8. 8
   To grant in mortmain.
9. 9
   To lose vitality.
10. 10
    To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
11. 11
    To gangrene.
12. 12
    To be subdued.