Adjective mortified has 2 senses
  1. gangrenous, mortified - suffering from tissue death
    Antonym: healthy (indirect, via unhealthy)
  2. embarrassed, humiliated, mortified - made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"
    Antonym: unashamed (indirect, via ashamed)
,Verb mortify has 4 senses
  1. mortify - practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
    --1 is a kind of
    mortify, subdue, cricify; discipline, train, check, condition
    Derived form: noun mortification4
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  2. mortify, subdue, cricify - hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
    --2 is one way to control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
    Derived form: noun mortification4
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  3. humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
    --3 is one way to hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
    Derived forms: noun mortification1, noun mortification3
    Sample sentence:
    The performance is likely to mortify Sue
  4. necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate - undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
    --4 is one way to waste, rot
    Derived form: noun mortification2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody's (body part) ----s
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