mortify
mortify is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
- transitive verb. To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
- transitive verb. To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.
- transitive verb. To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- intransitive verb. To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
- intransitive verb. To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
- intransitive verb. To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
- verb. undergo necrosis
"the tissue around the wound necrosed"
- verb. cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
"He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
- verb. hold within limits and control
"subdue one's appetites"
"mortify the flesh"
- verb. practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
Synonyms
gangrene, necrose, sphacelate, abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate, crucify, subdue
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in mortify:
Common word forms
mortified, mortifier, mortifies, mortifying
Words from these letters
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