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Mortified

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Adjective

1. gangrenous, mortified

suffering from tissue death

2. embarrassed, humiliated, mortified

made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

Example Sentences:
'too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street'
'humiliated that his wife had to go out to work'
'felt mortified by the comparison with her sister'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mortified

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adjective
having been offended or embarrassed
a demand from our mortified daughter never again to subject her friends to a freak show of such eye-watering crassness
If I reduced someone to tears, I'd be mortified.
The rest of us are fairly mortified at jokes made at the bloke's expense.

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Mortified

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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.

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