Another word for mortify
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Verb
To deprive of esteem, self-worth, or effectiveness
- To cause (someone) to feel a loss of pride, dignity, or self-respect:
- Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.
- Showing deferential or submissive respect:
- Low in rank, quality, or station; unpretentious or lowly:
- To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner:
- To lower in quality or value; make inferior or less valuable:
- To lower in dignity; dishonor or disgrace:
- To reduce in grade, rank, or status; demote.
- To lower in rank, prestige, or esteem.
Idioms:To cause (a person) to be self-consciously distressed
- To disrupt the composure of; disconcert.
- To cause to feel self-conscious or ill at ease; disconcert:
- To hinder with obstacles or difficulties; impede:
- To involve in or hamper with financial difficulties:
- To view or treat with disfavor.
- To put out of countenance; disconcert.
- Disfavor or disapproval.
- To cause to lose composure; embarrass or confuse:
- To frustrate (plans, for example) by throwing into disorder; disarrange.
- Mental or bodily distress.
- Something that disturbs one's comfort; an annoyance.
- To make uncomfortable; distress.
- To make uneasy or perplexed; disconcert.
- To defeat in battle; vanquish.
- Discomfiture.
- To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; bewilder or perplex.
- To cause to feel embarrassment.
- To fail to differentiate (one person or thing) from another:
- To cause to become confused or perplexed.
- To fail to distinguish; mix up:
- To make (something bad) worse:
- A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event:
- To cause to feel chagrin; mortify or discomfit:
- To make ashamed or uneasy; disconcert.
Idioms:See also:
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Another word for mortify
Verb
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- To represent or speak of as unimportant or contemptible:
- To cause to seem little or smaller than something else:
- Training expected to produce a specific character or pattern of behavior, especially training that produces moral or mental improvement:
- Control obtained by enforcing compliance or order:
- Controlled behavior resulting from disciplinary training; self-control:
- To cause to feel self-conscious or ill at ease; disconcert:
- To hinder with obstacles or difficulties; impede:
- To involve in or hamper with financial difficulties:
- A painful emotion caused by the awareness of having done something wrong or foolish:
- Respect for propriety or morality:
- A pervasive, negative emotional state, usually originating in childhood, marked by chronic self-reproach and a sense of personal failure.
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