1. Causing to feel shame, chagrin or vexation
   "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word";
   - embarrassing
    
2. Causing awareness of your shortcomings
   "golf is a mortifying game";
   - demeaning, humbling, humiliating

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

See also: cringe [informal], cringeworthy, cringey [informal], cringy, undignified, unpleasant

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

Encyclopedia: Mortify