mortify的读音是：英['mɔːtɪfaɪ]。mortify的意思是v.使 ... 受辱； 抑制。mortify过去式:mortified；过去分词:mortified；现在分词:mortifying；第三人称单数:mortifies。
一、英英释义点此查看mortify的详细内容
"subdue one's appetites"
"mortify the flesh"
"He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
"the tissue around the wound necrosed"
二、词典解释
1.使丢面子;使窘迫;使羞愧
If you say that somethingmortifies you, you mean that it offends or embarrasses you a great deal.
e.g. Jane mortified her family by leaving her husband.
简离开丈夫的做法使她的家庭蒙羞。
三、例句
The knowledge of future evils mortified the present felicities.
对未来苦难的了解压抑了目前的喜悦。
He felt mortified for his mistake.
他对自己的过失深感羞愧。
四、经典引文
The suffering may be a means of mortifying and outgrowing your sins.
出自：G. Santayanamortify的相关近义词
humiliate、embarrass、shame、wound、disgrace、abase、humble、confound、crush、degrade、put down、take down、cloud、deflate、impute、displease、addle、cheapen、crucify、subdue、sphacelate、necrose、gangrene、chagrin
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