verb trans
to subject (somebody) to feelings of shame or acute embarrassment
to subdue (e.g. bodily needs and desires), esp by abstinence or self-inflicted suffering
said of flesh: to become necrotic or gangrenous
mortification /-fiʹkaysh(ə)n/ noun
mortifying adj
mortifyingly adv
[Middle English mortifien to kill, subdue, from early French mortifier from late Latin mortificare, from Latin mort-, mors death]