mortify

verb12

1. •
   To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.

   • 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.
2. •
   To humble; to depress.
3. •
   To affect with vexation or chagrin.

   • He seemed to enjoy mortifying them with news of every fresh hell loosed in the capital.
   • 22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
4. •
   To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

   • Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
5. •
   To be subdued.
6. •
   To scare.

   • Please don't mortify your mother by telling her what a stupidly dangerous thing you did last night.
7. •
   To lose vitality.
8. •
   (historical) To grant in mortmain.

   • the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary — 1876
9. •
   (no longer used) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

   • Soothly, the gode werkes, that he dide biforn that he fil in sinne, been al mortified and astoned and dulled by the ofte sinning. — 1900
10. •
    (no longer used) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.

    • Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie [translating tuer] his legs. — 1603
11. •
    (no longer used) To gangrene.
12. •
    (no longer used) To kill.