mortify 的 2 个定义
mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing.
- to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- to subjugate by abstinence, ascetic discipline, or self-inflicted suffering.
- Pathology. to affect with gangrene or necrosis.
mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing.
- to practice mortification or disciplinary austerities.
- Pathology. to undergo mortification; become gangrened or necrosed.
mortify 近义词
embarrass
更多mortify例句
- Fallon: Christopher Meloni is perfectly cast as a father who lives to mortify his teenage kids.
- His low cunning invents numerous occasions to mortify and harass me.
- In one case, indeed, I think he went too far in this compliance, and the result was to mortify her not a little.
- She goes on to describe her subsequent attempts to mortify the flesh by means of fasting.
- He wished to mortify me, and please his favorite; but had no desire to dismiss me his service.
- Party writers assert that he was brought here in preference to any other spot, in order to mortify the citizens with the sight.