mortifies
verb
Meaning
- To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
- To kill.
- To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
- To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
- To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
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