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Mortified   /mˈɔrtəfˌaɪd/   Listen
Mortified

adjective
1.
Suffering from tissue death.  Synonym: gangrenous.
2.
Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride.  Synonyms: embarrassed, humiliated.  "Humiliated that his wife had to go out to work" , "Felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"


Mortify

verb
(past & past part. mortified; pres. part. mortifying)
1.
Practice self-denial of one's body and appetites.
2.
Hold within limits and control.  Synonyms: crucify, subdue.  "Mortify the flesh"
3.
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.  Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate.
4.
Undergo necrosis.  Synonyms: gangrene, necrose, sphacelate.





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"Mortified" Quotes from Famous Books



... indeed the adjustment of this necessary article which had consumed the five minutes passed in his dressing-room, slightly lengthened by the time necessary to trim his cuffs—a little nicety which he rarely overlooked and which it mortified ...
— Colonel Carter of Cartersville • F. Hopkinson Smith
... table as to the English colonies. Walpole knew as little about them as he knew about Coptic, so he made signs to his tormentor that he was deaf. On another occasion Raynal dined at Strawberry Hill, and mortified the vanity of his host by looking at none of its wonders himself, and keeping up such a fire of talk and cross-examination as to prevent anybody else from looking at them. "There never was such an impertinent and tiresome old gossip," cried ...
— Diderot and the Encyclopaedists - Volume II. • John Morley
... was that was too much for me. Somewhere in my little heart there had long been a secret pang of mortified pride—how born I do not know—at seeing Aunt Bridget take the place of my mother, and now, choking with vexation but without saying a word, I swept off the heads of all the flowers in the bed, and with my arms full of them—ten ...
— The Woman Thou Gavest Me - Being the Story of Mary O'Neill • Hall Caine
... such an awful one, and Mr. Weller, besides appearing fully resolved to carry it into execution, seemed so deeply mortified by Mr. Pickwick's refusal, that that gentleman, after ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... his Ministry in 1841, no place was offered to Disraeli. It can be no matter for surprise that he was deeply mortified. His exclusion does not appear to have been due to any personal feeling of animosity entertained by Peel. On the contrary, Peel's relations with Disraeli had up to that time been of a very friendly ...
— Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 • Evelyn Baring


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