Dictionary Entry
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.
7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
- 2transitive verb
To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive verb
To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- 5intransitive verb
To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
- 6intransitive verb
To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
- 7intransitive verb
To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
- 8verb
undergo necrosis
"the tissue around the wound necrosed"
Synonyms
- 9verb
cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
"He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
- 10verb
hold within limits and control
"subdue one's appetites"
"mortify the flesh"
- 11verb
practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
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