mortify

Definitions

• (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
• (transitive) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
• (obsolete) To kill.
• (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
• (obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
• (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
• (transitive) To grant in mortmain.
• (intransitive) To lose vitality.
• (intransitive) To gangrene.
• (intransitive) To be subdued.