Definitions for mortify

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mortify mor·ti·fy

Spelling: [mawr-tuh-fahy]

IPA: /ˈmɔr təˌfaɪ/

Mortify is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in mortify (fimorty).

Definitions for mortify

verb (used with object)

1. to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
2. to subjugate (the body, passions, etc.) by abstinence, ascetic discipline, or self-inflicted suffering.
3. Pathology. to affect with gangrene or necrosis.

verb (used without object)

1. to practice mortification or disciplinary austerities.
2. Pathology. to undergo mortification; become gangrened or necrosed.

Origin of mortify

1350-1400; Middle English mortifien Middle French mortifier Late Latin mortificāre “to put to death,” equivalent to Latin morti- (stem of mors) “death” + -ficāre -fy

Examples for mortify

To mortify her the more, she was landed at Traitors' Stairs.

Though I showed nothing of it, it served only to mortify me.

But she passed the matter over in silence, not caring to mortify him.

I did not wish to mortify the old gentleman and spoil his shortlived joy.

The intention is, I tell you plainly, to mortify you into a sense of your duty.

Then you must mortify him with a patch; my wife shall supply you.

If ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

On the contrary, he seemed to redouble his efforts to mortify his son.

Fallon: Christopher Meloni is perfectly cast as a father who lives to mortify his teenage kids.

But your kings do not allow so small a thing to vex or mortify them.