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Mortify

🔄 Synonyms of "Mortify"

8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
chagrinnoun	Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or mortification.
subdueverb	(transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
humbleverb	Having a low opinion of oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
abaseverb	(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
humiliateverb	(transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
gangrenenoun	The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
sphacelateverb	Affected with gangrene; gangrenous, necrotic.
necroseverb	(intransitive, pathology) To become necrotic.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Mortify"

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Word	Definition
humbleverb	(transitive, often reflexive) To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive.
abaseverb	(transitive) To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate.
humiliateverb	(transitive) To cause to be ashamed; to injure the dignity and self-respect of.
subdueverb	(transitive) To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
chagrinverb	(transitive) To bother or vex; to mortify.
sphacelateverb	(transitive, medicine) To affect with gangrene, cause to gangrene, mortify.
gangreneverb	(intransitive) To be affected with gangrene.
necroseverb	(intransitive, pathology) To become necrotic.
appalverb	UK spelling of appall.
macerate	To soften (something) or separate it into pieces by soaking it in a heated or unheated liquid.
deny oneselfverb	To decline the gratification of appetites, desires, impulses, or needs; to practise self-denial.
fastnoun	(British, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations.
demeanverb	To debase; to lower; to degrade.
displeverb	(obsolete) To discipline; to subject to discipline or punishment, especially for religious purposes.
disfleshverb	(obsolete, transitive) To reduce the flesh or obesity of.
abatenoun	(uncountable) Abatement; reduction; (countable) an instance of this.
abjureverb	(transitive) To solemnly reject (someone or something); to abandon (someone or something) forever; to disavow, to disclaim, to repudiate.
abjectifyverb	(transitive) To treat or regard as abject.
famishnoun	(intransitive) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to nearly perish.
starveverb	(intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.