mortify

1. (transitive)To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

   Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.

   abtöten

   practice self-denial of one's body and appetites

2. (transitive, usually)To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.

   I was so mortified I could have died right there; instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.

3. (transitive)To affect with vexation or chagrin.

   He seemed to enjoy mortifying them with news of every fresh hell loosed in the capital.

   22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations

4. (transitive)To scare.

   Near-synonym: petrify

   Please don't mortify your mother by telling her what a stupidly dangerous thing you did last night.

5. (historical, transitive)To grant in mortmain.

6. (intransitive)To lose vitality.

7. (intransitive)To be subdued.

8. (obsolete, transitive)To kill.

   töten, abtöten

9. (obsolete, transitive)To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

10. (obsolete, transitive)To humble; to depress.

11. (archaic, transitive)To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.

12. (archaic, intransitive)To gangrene.

1. Tom said that he was mortified.

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2. When I heard that, I was mortified.

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3. Tom is mortified.

   deTom ist beschämt.

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4. Tom looks mortified.

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5. I was mortified.

   deIch fühlte mich gedemütigt.

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