mortify

mortify englannista suomeksi

1. kuoleutua

2. loukata

3. nöyryyttää

4. harjoittaa kieltäymystä

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mortify englanniksi

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

''Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.''

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4. (RQ:KJV)

5. To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity. (defdate)

''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.''

6. (RQ:Churchill Celebrity)

7. To kill. (defdate)

8. To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize. (defdate)

9. (RQ:Bacon Sylva Sylvarum)

10. {{RQ:Hakewill Apologie

11. To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic. (defdate)

12. (RQ:Montaigne Florio Essayes) his legs.

13. To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.

14. 22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), (w), John Evelyn's Diary

the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations

15. (RQ:Spectator)

16. To grant in mortmain.

17. 1876 James Grant, ''History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland'', Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB):

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

18. To lose vitality.

19. To gangrene.

20. To be subdued.