- mortify - practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
--1 is a kind of mortify, subdue, cricify; discipline, train, check, condition
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun mortification4
Somebody ----s
- 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
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun mortification4
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- 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
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun mortification1, noun mortification3
The performance is likely to mortify Sue
- necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate - undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
--4 is one way to waste, rot
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun mortification2
Somebody's (body part) ----s