Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - mortify
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Mortify
mortify
verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Middle English mortifien, from Anglo-French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificare, from Latin mort-, mors Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. obsolete to destroy the strength, vitality, or functioning of 2. to subdue or deaden (as the body or bodily appetites) especially by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort 3. to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment ; shame intransitive verb 1. to practice mortification 2. to become necrotic or gangrenous
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v. (-ies, -ied) 1 tr. a cause (a person) to feel shamed or humiliated. b wound (a person's feelings). 2 tr. bring (the body, the flesh, the passions, etc.) into subjection by self-denial or discipline. 3 intr. (of flesh) be affected by gangrene or necrosis. Derivatives mortification n. mortifying adj. mortifyingly adv. Etymology: ME f. OF mortifier f. eccl.L mortificare kill, subdue f. mors mortis death ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. смирять, подавлять, укрощать (страсти, чувства и т. п.); умерщвлять (плоть) 2. унижать, обижать to mortify smb.'s pride —- унижать чье-л. достоинство, задеть чью-л. гордость to be mortified at (by) smb.'s behaviour —- быть оскорбленным (обиженным) чьим-л. поведением I was mortified that my manuscript was rejected —- я был очень расстроен, что мою рукопись отвергли (вернули) 3. мед. омертветь, гангренизироваться 4. шотл. жертвовать на благотворительные цели ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) подавлять (страсти, чувства и т.п.); умерщвлять (плоть) 2) обижать, унижать 3) med. омертветь, гангренизироваться 4) scot. жертвовать на благотворительные цели Syn: see shame ...Англо-русский словарь
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(mortifies, mortifying, mortified) If you say that something mortifies you, you mean that it offends or embarrasses you a great deal. Jane mortified her family by leaving her husband. VERB: no cont, V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ v 1 be mortified to feel extremely embarrassed or ashamed (She was mortified to think that he had read her diary.) 2 mortify the flesh/yourself formal to try to control your natural physical desires and needs by making your body suffer pain - mortification n (To my utter mortification I could not remember his name.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- late 14c., from O.Fr. mortifier, from L.L. mortificare "cause death," from mortificus "producing death," from L. mors (gen. mortis) "death" + root of facere "to make." Sense of "humiliate" first recorded 1645 in mortification. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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