mortify

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Definizione monolingua


mortify


Verb

mortify (third-person singular simple present mortifies, present participle mortifying, simple past and past participle mortified)


  1. (obsolete, transitive) To kill. [14th-17th c.]
  2. (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize. [14th-18th c.]
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic. [15th-18th c.]
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:
      Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie [transl. tuer] his legs.
  4. To discipline (ones body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. [from 15th c.]
    Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body. I wonder if such ascetics are masochists?
  5. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. [from 17th c.]
    I was so mortified I could have died right there, instead I fainted, but I swore Id never let that happen to me again.

Definizione dizionario mortify


umiliare
  Annientare la fiducia in sé e il sentimento di felicità di qualcuno.
  To destroy somebody's confidence or happiness.
abbassare
ammazzare
calmare
debilitare
demolire
mortificare
percorrere
placare
rendere più basso
uccidere

Altri significati:
  (obsolete, transitive) To kill. [14th-17th c.]
  To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. [from 15th c.]
  (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic. [15th-18th c.]
  (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize. [14th-18th c.]
  (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. [from 17th c.]

Traduzione mortify


umiliare ,abbassare ,ammazzare ,calmare ,debilitare

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