mortify

Etymology
From, , from , from +.

Verb

 * 1)  To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
 * Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
 * 1)  To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
 * I was so mortified I could have died right there; instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.
 * 1)  To kill.
 * 2)  To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
 * 3)  To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
 * 4)  To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
 * 5) * 22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published),, John Evelyn's Diary
 * the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
 * 1)  To grant in mortmain.
 * 2) * 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB):
 * the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary
 * 1)  To lose vitality.
 * 2)  To gangrene.
 * 3)  To be subdued.
 * the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
 * 1)  To grant in mortmain.
 * 2) * 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB):
 * the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary
 * 1)  To lose vitality.
 * 2)  To gangrene.
 * 3)  To be subdued.
 * 1)  To be subdued.

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