"mortify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/ [UK], /ˈmoɹtɪfaɪ/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-mortify.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mortifies [present, singular, third-person], mortifying [participle, present], mortified [participle, past], mortified [past]
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman mortifier, Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificō (“cause death”), from Latin mors (“death”) + -ficō (“-fy”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}}, {{uder|en|xno|mortifier}} Anglo-Norman mortifier, {{uder|en|frm|mortifier}} Middle French mortifier, {{uder|en|LL.|mortificō||cause death}} Late Latin mortificō (“cause death”), {{uder|en|la|mors||death}} Latin mors (“death”), {{m|la|-ficō||-fy}} -ficō (“-fy”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} mortify (third-person singular simple present mortifies, present participle mortifying, simple past and past participle mortified)
  1. (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. Tags: transitive Synonyms (to discipline oneself by suppressing desires): macerate Translations (to discipline by suppressing desires): потъпквам (potǎpkvam) (Bulgarian), потушавам (potušavam) (Bulgarian), onderdrukken (Dutch), mortifier (French), macérer (French), abtöten (German), 苦行する (kugyō suru) (Japanese), mācerō [Mediaeval] (Latin), mortificar (Spanish), späka (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-TozY2ohY Disambiguation of 'to discipline oneself by suppressing desires': 76 3 0 2 6 2 3 2 3 2 Disambiguation of 'to discipline by suppressing desires': 76 2 0 2 6 2 3 2 3 2
  2. (transitive, usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity. Tags: transitive, usually Synonyms (to injure one's dignity): demean, humiliate, shame Translations (to injure one's dignity): унижавам (unižavam) (Bulgarian), 屈辱を与える (kutsujoku wo ataeru) (Japanese), 辱める (hazukashimeru) (Japanese), mortificar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-348PAvXN Disambiguation of "to injure one's dignity": 13 65 0 2 9 5 1 1 2 1 Disambiguation of "to injure one's dignity": 13 65 0 2 9 5 1 1 2 1
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To kill. Tags: obsolete, transitive Translations (to kill): умъртвявам (umǎrtvjavam) (Bulgarian), tuer (French), töten (German), abtöten (German), 殺す (korosu) (Japanese), matar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-HgcD5W8d Disambiguation of 'to kill': 0 0 78 5 17 0 0 0 0 0
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-5LC23wJY
  5. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic. Tags: obsolete, transitive Categories (topical): Death, Emotions
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-OqpOPIWV Disambiguation of Death: 8 7 10 3 63 8 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Emotions: 5 24 0 2 39 26 1 1 1 0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 4 2 6 50 10 3 3 3 3 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 11 5 2 9 46 14 3 3 3 3 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 12 6 4 9 34 13 6 6 6 5
  6. (obsolete, transitive) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-YpR-~Wzz
  7. (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain. Tags: historical, transitive Categories (topical): Scots law
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-zUFZS10v
  8. (intransitive) To lose vitality. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-qwyMR~QT
  9. (intransitive) To gangrene. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-eCDmtp~I
  10. (intransitive) To be subdued. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-mortify-en-verb-lCmcMweh
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: mortification

Inflected forms

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      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortifying",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortified",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mortified",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {},
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mortification"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason",
          "text": "With fasting mortify'd, worn out with tears.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1688, Matthew Prior, An Ode",
          "text": "Mortify thy learned lust.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "discipline",
          "discipline"
        ],
        [
          "abstinence",
          "abstinence"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "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."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "embarrass",
          "embarrass"
        ],
        [
          "humiliate",
          "humiliate"
        ],
        [
          "injure",
          "injure"
        ],
        [
          "dignity",
          "dignity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "used passively"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive",
        "usually"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To kill."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "kill",
          "kill"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To kill."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "potency",
          "potency"
        ],
        [
          "nullify",
          "nullify"
        ],
        [
          "deaden",
          "deaden"
        ],
        [
          "neutralize",
          "neutralize"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "necrotic",
          "necrotic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary\nthe news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Scots law"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB)",
          "text": "the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To grant in mortmain."
      ],
      "links": [
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          "mortmain",
          "mortmain"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "Scots law",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lose vitality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "vitality",
          "vitality"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To lose vitality."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To gangrene."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "gangrene",
          "gangrene"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To gangrene."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be subdued."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subdue",
          "subdue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To be subdued."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmoɹtɪfaɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "to discipline oneself by suppressing desires",
      "word": "macerate"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to injure one's dignity",
      "word": "demean"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to injure one's dignity",
      "word": "humiliate"
    },
    {
      "sense": "to injure one's dignity",
      "word": "shame"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "potǎpkvam",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "word": "потъпквам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "potušavam",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "word": "потушавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "word": "onderdrukken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "word": "mortifier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "word": "macérer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "word": "abtöten"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kugyō suru",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "word": "苦行する"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "tags": [
        "Mediaeval"
      ],
      "word": "mācerō"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "word": "mortificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to discipline by suppressing desires",
      "word": "späka"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "unižavam",
      "sense": "to injure one's dignity",
      "word": "унижавам"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kutsujoku wo ataeru",
      "sense": "to injure one's dignity",
      "word": "屈辱を与える"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hazukashimeru",
      "sense": "to injure one's dignity",
      "word": "辱める"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to injure one's dignity",
      "word": "mortificar"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "umǎrtvjavam",
      "sense": "to kill",
      "word": "умъртвявам"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to kill",
      "word": "tuer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to kill",
      "word": "töten"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to kill",
      "word": "abtöten"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "korosu",
      "sense": "to kill",
      "word": "殺す"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to kill",
      "word": "matar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mortify"
}

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