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1. Practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
    
2. Hold within limits and control
   "mortify the flesh";
   - subdue, crucify
    
3. Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
   "He mortified his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss";
   - humiliate, chagrin, humble, abase
    
4. Undergo necrosis
   "the tissue around the wound mortified";
   - necrose, gangrene, sphacelate

Derived forms: mortified, mortifying, mortifies

Type of: bruise, check, condition, contain, control, curb, discipline, hold, hold in, hurt, injure, mod [informal], moderate, offend, rot, spite, train, waste, wound

Encyclopedia: Mortify