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Määritelmät
Verbi
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
- (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
- (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive) To scare.
- (obsolete, transitive) To humble; to depress.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (archaic, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
- (archaic, intransitive) To gangrene.
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
Esimerkit
- Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.
- He mortified pearls in vinegar.
- Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie his legs.
- Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
- With fasting mortified, worn out with tears.
- Mortify thy learned lust.
- Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth.
- I was so mortified I could have died right there, instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.
- Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
- the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
- How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!
- the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary
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