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mortified
[mawr-tuh-fahyd]
adjective
humiliated, ashamed, or deeply embarrassed.
Sternly lectured by the principal in front of her friends, my daughter felt suitably mortified and hopefully will never do such a thing again.
Pathology.affected with gangrene or necrosis.
The removal of mortified tissue from wounds enables faster healing.
verb
the simple past tense and past participle of mortify.
Other Word Forms
- mortifiedly adverb
- unmortified adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of mortified1
Example Sentences
She said: "I was mortified, I was embarrassed, I started crying. But he was really supportive and kind."
She feels complete "shame" and is "mortified" at the danger she placed herself in.
I was both mortified and bemused, curious about who would pay good money to spread such obvious nonsense.
"I was mortified, I was so embarrassed because I didn't know the people well at that stage, so it was so humiliating," she said.
From that point Boulter showed tremendous fight to claw back the deficit, but the 28-year-old was then mortified to put a volley into the net at 30-30 in the ninth game.
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