mortify

  1. Verb.  (obsolete, transitive) To kill. (defdate, 14th-17th c.) .
  2. Verb.  (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize. (defdate, 14th-18th c.) .
  3. Verb.  (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic. (defdate, 15th-18th c.) .
  4. Verb.  To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
  5. Verb.  (usually, used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. (defdate, from 17th c.) .

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