mortify
verb
/ˈmoɹtɪfaɪ/
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/ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/
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- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive, usually, used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity. [from 17th c.]
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mortificare
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- (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize. [14th–18th c.]
- (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic. [15th–18th c.]
- (obsolete, transitive) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
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soffocare
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