mortify

(transitive)To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.

Đồng nghĩa: macerate

(transitive, usually)(transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.

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.

Đồng nghĩa: demean, humiliate, shame

(obsolete, transitive)To kill.

Đồng nghĩa: dispose of, terminate, annihilate, bag, baptize, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bump off, bury, cack, compromised to a permanent end, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, ex, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, grease, knock off, lay waste to, make away with, merc, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, pop off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put someone out of their misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, slay, slaughter, slime out, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, stop someone's clock, take, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top off, top, torpedo, take care of, take down, take out, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck

(obsolete, transitive)To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

Đồng nghĩa: abate, cancel out, diminish, weaken

(transitive)To affect with vexation or chagrin.

He seemed to enjoy mortifying them with news of every fresh hell loosed in the capital.

22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations

Đồng nghĩa: disturb, perturb, agitate, freak, bother, bring down, discompose, disconcert, enturbulate, disturb, mortify, perturb, put out, ruffle, throw off balance, unsettle, upset, flurry

(transitive)To scare.

Near-synonym: petrify

Please don't mortify your mother by telling her what a stupidly dangerous thing you did last night.

Đồng nghĩa: frighten, alarm, affright, appall, dismay, fray, frighten, grill, give someone the shits, harrow, horrify, make someone's blood run cold, mortify, petrify, scare, scare straight, scare the bejeebers out of, scare the hell out of, scare the pants off of, scare the shit out of, terrorize, terrify, spook, petrify

(obsolete, transitive)To humble; to depress.

(historical, transitive)(transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary

(intransitive)To lose vitality.

Đồng nghĩa: darken, die, fade, wither

(archaic, transitive)To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.

Đồng nghĩa: fester, necrotize, rankle, rot, sphacelate, decay

(archaic, intransitive)To gangrene.

Đồng nghĩa: fester, putrefy

(intransitive)To be subdued.

Đồng nghĩa: abate, diminish, quell, subside, wane