英 [ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ] 美 [ˈmɔːrtɪfaɪ]
vt. 抑制；苦修；使…受辱
vi. 禁欲；苦行；约束；腐坏
第三人称单数mortifies
现在分词mortifying
过去式mortified
过去分词mortified
mortify /ˈmɔːtɪˌfaɪ/ [ mortifying mortified mortifies ]
及物动词 If you say that something mortifies you, you mean that it offends or embarrasses you a great deal. 使受辱; 使窘迫
Jane mortified her family by leaving her husband.
简的家人为简离开丈夫感到奇耻大辱。
使变成坏疽
(为了苦行)抑制，克制(肉体、情感)
... mortician 殡仪业者 mortify 受辱 mortifying 抑制的 ...
... victim 受害者 mortify v. 使感到羞辱;使蒙屈辱 humiliate 蒙羞,羞辱 ...
... mortgage n./v.抵押 mortify v.使屈辱；使羞辱 mosaic n. 马赛克，嵌花式的, 拼成的；镶嵌, 镶嵌图案, 镶嵌工艺 ...
mortified 窘迫的；受辱的
mortifying 痛心的；使人羞愧的；禁欲苦修的
mortification 屈辱；禁欲；坏疽
mortified 使受辱（mortify的过去式）
mortifying 苦修；使…悔恨（mortify的ing形式）
禁欲；苦行；约束
To cause to feel chagrin ; mortify or discomfit.
使懊恼，使受屈辱，使窘迫。
Is it not this: to humiliate oneself in order to mortify one's pride?
这个是不是：用羞辱自己的尊严来抑制自己的高傲？
You would not wish to disappoint and mortify the Coles, I am sure, sir;
我敢说，先生，你是不想叫科尔夫妇扫兴、丢面子的。
These are often distilled into deadpan rituals, with the director maintaining his Proustian interest in habit in its capacity both to mortify and console.
They say that while Jones' claim began with a single thread--that then Governor Clinton harmed her in 1991, when he allegedly exposed himself and asked for sex in a hotel room--it has since been embroidered into a garish tapestry of ancillary allegations intended to mortify.
It is not only deeply painful for the two of us but also for everyone else affected and it would mortify our mother if she were alive today and, if we might say so, we feel we are more able to speak for our mother than Paul.