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Adjective mortified has 2 senses
- gangrenous, mortified - suffering from tissue death
Antonym: healthy (indirect, via unhealthy)
- embarrassed, humiliated, mortified - made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"
Antonym: unashamed (indirect, via ashamed)
Verb mortify has 4 senses
- mortify - practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
--1 is a kind of mortify, subdue, cricify; discipline, train, check, condition
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- mortify, subdue, cricify - hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
--2 is one way to control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
--3 is one way to hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to mortify Sue
- necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate - undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
--4 is one way to waste, rot
Sample sentence:
Somebody's (body part) ----s
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