Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.
Hold within limits and control.
To destroy somebody's confidence or happiness; to humiliate.
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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