verb

1. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

   “Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.”

2. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.

   “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.”

3. To kill.

Synonyms: macerate, demean, humiliate, shame

noun

1. Mortification; abstinence

   “mortifyings of the flesh”

adjective

1. Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.