Толковый словарь английского языка - mortify
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 to destroy the strength, vitality, or functioning of, to subdue or deaden (as the body or bodily appetites) especially by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort, to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment ; shame , intransitive verb to practice mortification, 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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