verb
- Practice self-denial of one's body and appetites.
- synonyms: mortify
- Hold within limits and control.
- usage: "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
- Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.
- usage: "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
- Undergo necrosis.
- usage: "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
- synonyms: necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate
adjective
- Suffering from tissue death.
- synonyms: gangrenous
- Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: embarrassed, humiliated
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