mortifying / ˈmɔr təˌfaɪ /

骇人听闻令人不快的丧心病狂屈辱的

mortifying2 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb

mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing.

  1. to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
  2. to subjugate by abstinence, ascetic discipline, or self-inflicted suffering.
  3. Pathology. to affect with gangrene or necrosis.
v. 无主动词 verb

mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing.

  1. to practice mortification or disciplinary austerities.
  2. Pathology. to undergo mortification; become gangrened or necrosed.

mortifying 近义词

v. 动词 verb

embarrass

更多mortifying例句

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