Word Meaning

Meaning of "mortify" and the crossword clue

- Humiliate
- Humiliate, chagrin
- To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
- To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
- To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.
- To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
- To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
- To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.