mortifies

verb

1. 1

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

   “Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.”

2. 2

   (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.

   “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.”

3. 3

   To kill.

4. 4

   To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

5. 5

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

6. 6

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

7. 7

   To grant in mortmain.

8. 8

   To lose vitality.

9. 9

   To gangrene.

10. 10

    To be subdued.