abash, chagrin, crumble, degrade, disintegrate, fester, let down, put down, rebuff, subdue
Definitionv. practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
Last update: March 16, 2017
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We should not mortify any one. [verb]
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Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth, etc. (Col. iii. [verb]
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I wanted it to be special for you and managed to mortify both of us. [verb]
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"If that be the case," said Banter, "perhaps you won't care to mortify yourself a little in making your fortune another way." [verb]
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We fast, we mortify ourselves--I have felt it all myself--to partake of divinity. [verb]
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I have studied how best to mortify in them the worldly sentiment of pride; and, only the other day, I had a pleasing proof of my success. [verb]
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"And I'd have won on my Frenchy, your excellency," said Lavrushka from behind, alluding to his shabby cart horse, "only I didn't wish to mortify you." [verb]
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I am afraid, but it is right to mortify the spirit. [Please select]
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I shall mortify him; but that is a trifle compared with actual misery. [Please select]
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Moody, of York, Maine, employed a similar device to awaken and mortify the sleepers in meeting. [Please select]
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"These," he says, "thought to torment, to mortify, and to drive me away." [Please select]
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