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mortify

English

  1. 🔊 hold within limits and control
    “subdue one's appetites”
  2. 🔊 practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
  3. 🔊 cause to feel shame
    “He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss”
  4. 🔊 undergo necrosis
    “the tissue around the wound necrosed”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 mortificar to mortify

Similar words

necrose gangrene sphacelate humiliate chagrin humble abase subdue crucify abash break up bring down canker cast down castigate chagrin chasten confound confuse control corrupt crumble crumble into dust crush