mortify
Short definition from Wiktionary
Verb
- To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- To kill.
- To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
- To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- To scare.
- To humble; to depress.
- To grant in mortmain.
- To lose vitality.
- To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
- To gangrene.
- To be subdued.
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