mortifying

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الإنجليزية - الإنجليزية
Present participle of mortify
Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing
Subduing the appetites, desires, etc
Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh
causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse
causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
as, mortifying penances
If you say that something is mortifying, you mean that it makes you feel extremely ashamed or embarrassed. She felt it would be utterly mortifying to be seen in such company as his by anyone
mortify
to embarrass

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.

mortify
to die

The loss of blood flow caused the toe to mortify and they had to amputate the foot to save the life.

mortify
{v} to corrupt, vex, humble, subdue
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hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
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cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
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To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline
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hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in
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To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action
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{f} shame, humiliate; get gangrene; suppress fleshly desires for spiritual discipline
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practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
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If you say that something mortifies you, you mean that it offends or embarrasses you a great deal. Jane mortified her family by leaving her husband
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To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc
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To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene
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undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
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to discipline oneself by suppressing desires
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To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble
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To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress
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