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Mortifying

adjective
1.
Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation.  Synonym: embarrassing.  "It was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
2.
Causing awareness of your shortcomings.  Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, humiliating.


Mortify

verb
(past & past part. mortified; pres. part. mortifying)
1.
Practice self-denial of one's body and appetites.
2.
Hold within limits and control.  Synonyms: crucify, subdue.  "Mortify the flesh"
3.
Cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of.  Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate.
4.
Undergo necrosis.  Synonyms: gangrene, necrose, sphacelate.





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"Mortifying" Quotes from Famous Books



... spoke quite patiently was a great credit to his self-control. His failure to move her had filled him with a depressing and mortifying surprise. To say nothing of the regard she might be supposed to have for his wishes, he knew that he ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... satisfaction from the melancholy and mortifying details of superstition, to the generous efforts, which the Spanish government was making to enlarge the limits of science and dominion in the west. "Amidst the storms and troubles of Italy, Spain was every day stretching her wings over a ...
— The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella The Catholic, V2 • William H. Prescott
... myself from this mortifying thought, I considered that it took its rise from those narrow conceptions which we are apt to entertain of the Divine nature. We ourselves cannot attend to many different objects at the same time. If we are careful to inspect ...
— The Illustrated London Reading Book • Various
... somewhat mortifying to feel that it is not ourselves they care for, but merely the gratification of their own vanity. Of course you must bury this profound secret in your own breast. But if you ponder over what I have said you will ...
— Wood Magic - A Fable • Richard Jefferies
... confounded, and turned her eyes toward her niece. She could only hope at such a mortifying juncture that Nan was ready to explain, or at least to shoulder ...
— A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches • Sarah Orne Jewett


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