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mortify

If you mortify someone, you embarrass or humiliate them. She was so mortified that she nearly fainted.

mortify

practice self-denial of one's body and appetites (= subdue) hold within limits and control subdue one's appetites mortify the flesh (= humiliate) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss (= necrose) undergo necrosis the tissue around the wound necrosed

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