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mortified

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mor·ti·fy  (môrt-f)
v. mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing, mor·ti·fies
v.tr.
1. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate.
2. To discipline (one's body and physical appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.
v.intr.
1. To practice ascetic discipline or self-denial of the body and its appetites.
2. Pathology To undergo mortification; become gangrenous or necrosed.

[Middle English mortifien, to deaden, subdue, from Old French mortifier, from Latin mortificre, to kill : mors, mort-, death; see mer- in Indo-European roots + -ficre, -fy.]
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Adj.1.mortified - suffering from tissue death
unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"
2.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"
ashamed - feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; "are you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn coat"

mortified
adjective humiliated, embarrassed, shamed, crushed, annoyed, humbled, horrified, put down, put out (informal) ashamed, confounded, deflated, vexed, affronted, displeased, chagrined, chastened, discomfited, abashed, put to shame, rendered speechless, made to eat humble pie (informal) given a showing-up (informal)
Translations
mortified [ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd] adj I was mortified → me dio muchísima vergüenza
mortified [ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd] adjmort(e) de honte
mortified [ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd] adj he was mortified → er empfand das als beschämend;
(embarrassed) → es war ihm schrecklich peinlich
mortified [ˈmɔːtɪfaɪd] adjumiliato/a


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"That is very true," replied Elizabeth, "and I could easily forgive HIS pride, if he had not mortified MINE.
Her elder cousins mortified her by reflections on her size, and abashed her by noticing her shyness: Miss Lee wondered at her ignorance, and the maid-servants sneered at her clothes; and when to these sorrows was added the idea of the brothers and sisters among whom she had always been important as playfellow, instructress, and nurse, the despondence that sunk her little heart was severe.
He knew that the southern races communicated with each other in the language of pantomime, and was mortified to find her shrugs and smiles so unintelligible.
 
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