verb
shame, embarrass, discipline, belittle; see disgrace, humiliate, ridicule.
See mortify in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
To deprive of esteem, self-worth, or effectiveness:
To cause (a person) to be self-consciously distressed:
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