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Noun mortification has 4 senses
- chagrin, humiliation, mortification - strong feelings of embarrassment
--1 is a kind of embarrassment
- necrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelus - the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
--2 is a kind of death
--2 has particulars: myonecrosis
- humiliation, mortification - an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect; "he had to undergo one humiliation after another"
--3 is a kind of case, instance, example
- mortification - (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)
--4 is a kind of self-denial, self-discipline, self-control
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