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Mortify logo #10101) Abase 2) Appal 3) Crucify 4) Degrade 5) Demean 6) Humiliate 7) Necrose 8) Sphacelate
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Mortify logo #10101) Cause to feel shame 2) Check 3) Condition 4) Cricify 5) Deaden 6) Discipline 7) Embarrass greatly 8) French word used in English 9) Humiliate 10) Hurt the pride of 11) Subdue 12) To be subdued 13) To deaden, neutralize 14) To depress 15) To gangrene 16) To grant in mortmain 17) To humble 18) To kill
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Mortify logo #21002• (v. t.) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress. • (v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble. • (v. i.) To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangren...
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mortify logo #209731. To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in. ... 2. To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action. 'Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.' (Bacon) 'He mortified pearls in vinegar.' (Hakewill) ... 3. To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, b...
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Mortify logo #20972Mor'ti·fy intransitive verb 1. To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene. 2. To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline. « This makes him . . . give alms of all that he hath, watch, fast, and mort...
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Mortify logo #20972Mor'ti·fy transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mortified ; present participle & verbal noun Mortifying .] [ Middle English mortifien , French mortifier , from Latin mortificare ; Latin mors , mo...
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mortify logo #20400[v] - practice self-denial of one`s body and appetites 2. [v] - hold within limits and control
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mortify logo #21009mortify 1. To decay and to die. 2. To make someone feel ashamed and humiliated. 3. To use self-imposed discipline, hardship, abstinence from pleasure, and especially self-inflicted pain in an attempt to conrol or put an end to desires and passions; especially, for religious purposes.
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mortify logo #20974 verb hold within limits and control; `subdue one`s appetites`; `mortify the flesh`
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mortify logo #23665[SAT terms] cause to feel shame
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mortify logo #23665 cause to feel shame
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mortify logo #23665 cause to feel shame
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mortify logo #23665 cause to feel shame
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mortify logo #23665[Intelligent words] cause to feel shame
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