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mortify/ˈmɔ:tifai/v. (-ies, -ied) 1 tr.a cause (a person) to feel shamed or humiliated 使(某人)失面子；使受辱 b wound (a person's feelings) 伤害(某人的感情) 2 tr. bring (the body, the flesh, the passions, etc.) into subjection by self-denial or discipline 克制；抑制(自身、肉体、感情等) 3 intr. (of flesh) be affected by gangrene or necrosis (肉)变成坏疽 □ mortification /-fiˈkeiʃ(ə)n/ n.□ mortifying adj.□ mortifyingly adv.[Middle English via Old French mortifier from ecclesiastical Latin mortificare ‘kill, subdue’, from mors mortis ‘death’] |