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Meanings of mortify in English
Catalan
necrosi Synonyms
Examples for "crush"
Examples for "crush"
1
Sudan used government war planes and proxy militias to crush the rebellion.
2
Fascists want a strong state to crush opponents and to provide jobs.
3
Naval battle of Meloria; the Genoese crush the power of the Pisans.
4
House price bubbles thrust economies forward and crush them when they burst.
5
I sure hope he's not strong enough to crush my shoulder socket.
1
To defeat an army, you must demoralize and throw it into disorder.
2
Everything was done to demoralize, frighten and overawe judges, witnesses and jurors.
3
The fear exists that the fall of the captain will demoralize the rest.
4
We indulge in feelings which tend to demoralize the whole character.
5
In plain English, he wishes to demoralize only the higher classes of society.
1
These meditations, although they made him thoughtful, did not dispirit him.
2
These proceedings tended, in a great degree, to dispirit the attendants of Mr. Park.
3
No reverses seemed to dispirit him, no misfortune appeared to ruffle his calm, brave temperament.
4
The whole surrounding was calculated to dispirit the five officers, to say nothing of the occasion.
5
Even our largest problems need not dispirit us.
Usage of mortify in English
1
Paine did not hesitate to mortify both these failings in his fellow-men.
2
Though I showed nothing of it, it served only to mortify me.
3
She looked around her with disdainful eyes, eager to mortify the painter.
4
Now, I do not ask you to restrain and mortify these things.
5
She'd like to know what there was about her to mortify anybody?
6
Making this public would just mortify his mother and embarrass the women.
7
I shall mortify him; but that is a trifle compared with actual misery.
8
We are to mortify the flesh and thwart the carnal mind.
9
But she passed the matter over in silence, not caring to mortify him.
10
If you mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live.
11
The effect of this misfortune was to mortify and infuriate them.
12
His application was received coldly, and in a way to mortify him exceedingly.
13
Such was the man who was to mortify the pride of Fitzgerald Fletcher.
14
And to mortify the wife would be to act as a heartless scoundrel.
15
I am afraid, but it is right to mortify the spirit.
16
They will rob me of the very qualities that mortify them.
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Portuguese
Mortify through the time
Mortify across language varieties
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