Dictionary Entry
mortification
mortification is a 13-letter English word with 11 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
13 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 23 · 11 senses
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- 1noun
The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified
- 2noun
The death of one part of an animal body, while the rest continues to live; loss of vitality in some part of a living animal; gangrene.
- 3noun
Destruction of active qualities; neutralization.
- 4noun
Subjection of the passions and appetites, by penance, absistence, or painful severities inflicted on the body.
- 5noun
Hence: Deprivation or depression of self-approval; abatement or pride; humiliation; chagrin; vexation.
- 6noun
That which mortifies; the cause of humiliation, chagrin, or vexation.
- 7noun
A gift to some charitable or religious institution; -- nearly synonymous with mortmain.
- 8noun
(Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
- 9noun
an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect
"he had to undergo one humiliation after another"
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- 10noun
strong feelings of embarrassment
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- 11noun
the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
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