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mortified
We have found lemma(root) word of mortified : mortify.
Definitions
[ˈmɔːtɪfʌɪ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- cause (someone) to feel very embarrassed or ashamed
(e.g: he was suitably mortified by his own idiocy)
- subdue (the body or its needs and desires) by self-denial or discipline
(e.g: they wish to return to heaven by mortifying the flesh)
- (of flesh) be affected by gangrene or necrosis
(e.g: the cut in Henry's arm had mortified)
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Origin
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late Middle English (in the senses ‘put to death’, ‘deaden’, and ‘subdue by self-denial’): from Old French mortifier, from ecclesiastical Latin mortificare ‘kill, subdue’, from mors, mort- ‘death’
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