mor·ti·fy 
(môr
t
ə-f
ī′)
v. mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing, mor·ti·fies
v.tr.1. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.
2. To discipline (one's of the body and the appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially for religious reasons.
v.intr.1. To practice mortification of the body and its appetites.
2. To undergo mortification; become gangrenous.
[Middle English mortifien, to deaden, subdue, from Old French mortifier, from Latin mortificāre, to kill : mors, mort-, death; see mer- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + -ficāre, -fy.]