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verb
- 1. cause (someone) to feel very embarrassed or ashamed: "he was suitably mortified by his own idiocy" Similar Opposite
- 2. subdue (the body or its needs and desires) by self-denial or discipline: "they wish to return to heaven by mortifying the flesh" Similar Opposite
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adjective. uk / ˈmɔː.tɪ.faɪd / us / ˈmɔːr.t̬ə.faɪd / Add to word list. very embarrassed: [ + to infinitive ] She was absolutely mortified to hear her son swearing at the teacher. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. ashamed He was ashamed that he had been caught stealing. embarrassed I was too embarrassed to admit I was wrong.
The meaning of MORTIFIED is feeling or showing strong shame or embarrassment. How to use mortified in a sentence.
having been offended or embarrassed. a demand from our mortified daughter never again to subject her friends to a freak show of such eye-watering crassness. If I reduced someone to tears, I'd be mortified. The rest of us are fairly mortified at jokes made at the bloke's expense. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
Mortified definition: humiliated, ashamed, or deeply embarrassed. See examples of MORTIFIED used in a sentence.
to cause someone to feel extremely ashamed or embarrassed: He’s mortified by the fact that at 38 he still lives at home with his mother. (Definition of mortify from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of mortify.
to cause someone to feel extremely ashamed or embarrassed: He’s mortified by the fact that at 38 he still lives at home with his mother. (Definition of mortify from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of mortify.
To discipline (one's of the body and the appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially for religious reasons. v.intr. 1. To practice mortification of the body and its appetites. 2. To undergo mortification; become gangrenous.
Mortify means to humiliate or embarrass in an extreme way. You know when you do something so unbearably embarrassing that you just want to shrivel up and die? That’s what it’s like to feel mortified. Which is fitting because the word comes from a root meaning “death.”
You're mortified when you're so ashamed or embarrassed that you wish you could just shrivel up and die — kind of like mortified flesh, actually. Though people get embarrassed often, being mortified is a little more rare and a lot more severe.
The meaning of MORTIFY is to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame. How to use mortify in a sentence. The Deadly History of Mortify
