MORTIFYING
(adj.sat, verb, noun, adj.)Definitions
Mortifying - as an adjective satellite
Causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation
Example: "The embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"
Causing awareness of your shortcomings
Example: "Golf is a humbling game"
Mortifying - as a verb
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
Example: "Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body."
(usually used passively) to embarrass, to humiliate. to injure one's dignity.
Example: "I was so mortified i could have died right there; instead i fainted, but i swore i'd never let that happen to me again."
To kill.
To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
To grant in mortmain.
To lose vitality.
To gangrene.
To be subdued.
Mortifying - as a noun
Mortification; abstinence
Example: "Mortifyings of the flesh"
Mortifying - as an adjective
Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.
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Word Game Points
MORTIFYING has a SCRABBLE points total of 19.
MORTIFYING has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 21.
MORTIFYING has a WORDFEUD points total of 20.