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单词 mortified
释义 mortified
adjective
Etymology: from past participle of mortify
1. : insensible to worldly or sensual pleasures : having the appetites in subjection : ascetic, austere
 < the fame of his mortified life and supernatural gift of counsel — C.M.Rooney >
 < could be no gainsaying his brilliant intellectual gifts or his mortified daily life — Times Literary Supplement >
2. : affected by gangrene : gangrenous
3. obsolete : being without feeling : deadened
 < strike in their numbed and mortified bare arms pins, wooden pricks, nails — Shakespeare >
4. archaic : decayed, rotten
 < in such a mortified condition, that no other people … would feed upon it — Tobias Smollett >
5. : deeply embarrassed or humiliated
 < terribly mortified to find that his host had forgotten about him >
Synonyms: see ashamed
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