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Another word for mortify

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Verb

  1. To deprive of esteem, self-worth, or effectiveness

    Idioms:
    See also:

    win

    respect

  2. To cause (a person) to be self-consciously distressed

    Idioms:
    See also:

    pain

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Another word for mortify

Verb
  1. See also:

    ridicule

    humiliate

    disgrace

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Sentence Examples

  • I wanted it to be special for you and managed to mortify both of us.

  • mortify 1. If sin be discovered, but not mortified; if there be no endeavor to get it removed.

  • On the morrow the western horizon would clear again, until some such disaster as that which befell Varus would come to mortify cruelly the pride of an Augustus.

  • compendious way to mortify your lusts, then give Christ one look.

  • mortify one lust for Christ?

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