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Adjective mortifying has 2 senses
- embarrassing, mortifying - causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
Antonym: pleasant (indirect, via unpleasant)
- demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying - causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
Antonym: dignified (indirect, via undignified)
Verb mortify has 4 senses
- mortify - practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
--1 is a kind of mortify, subdue, cricify; discipline, train, check, condition
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- mortify, subdue, cricify - hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
--2 is one way to control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
--3 is one way to hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to mortify Sue
- necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate - undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
--4 is one way to waste, rot
Sample sentence:
Somebody's (body part) ----s
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