mortifying 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.
mortifying 近义词
embarrass
更多mortifying例句
- For 150 years its mortifying confusions have been swept under the carpet with the court adjudication “stubborn child.”
- This of course exposed me to the mortifying risk of having my requests remain unanswered or worse, turned down.
- I'll share one that may not be the biggest lie I've ever told, but is certainly the most mortifying.
- Like us, their output ranges from the mundane to the mortifying.
- It was such a damper as to be most mortifying to an enthusiastic girl, and she drew into herself in a moment.
- The English, fearing a ruse, continued to stand to their arms till their scouts confirmed the mortifying intelligence.
- There have been mortifying failures, but there have been positive successes in the eleven years.
- Besides, the mortifying experience at the Paris Exposition has dampened even my perennially youthful enthusiasm.
- Certainly it was a mortifying matter for all concerned, and not least for Cluny; the more credit that he took it as he did.