mortify

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mortifier, Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificō (“cause death”), from Latin mors (“death”) + -ficō (“-fy”).

verb

1. (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
   Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
   With fasting mortify'd, worn out with tears. 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason
   Mortify thy learned lust. 1688, Matthew Prior, An Ode
2. (transitive, usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
   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. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
   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
7. (transitive, Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
   the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB)
8. (intransitive) To lose vitality.
9. (intransitive) To gangrene.
10. (intransitive) To be subdued.