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mortify 【mortify】v.使感到羞辱；使蒙屈辱The parents were mortified by their children's bad behavior before the guests.孩子们在客人面前的不良行为，使父母蒙羞。

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['mɔːrtɪfaɪ] 
mortifycause to feel shame; hurt the pride of
To mortify someone is to cause them extreme embarrassment. Your mother may not have been trying to mortify you when she showed up at your senior prom with a bunch of unicorn balloons, but she did.
The root of the verb mortify is from the Latin word mors, which means “death.” To mortify something used to mean to destroy its life, but now mortify is mostly used when you feel so ashamed or embarrassed you “want to die.” To punish yourself through deprivation from food or another desire, you can mortify that compulsion, but it’s probably best to just mortify your parents by showing up at their work place with a new mohawk.
All forms of 'mortify' will appear on average once every 534 pages.self-mortificationmortificationmortifiedmortifymortifying

Front	mortify
Pron	['mɔːrtɪfaɪ]
Back	【mortify】 v.使感到羞辱；使蒙屈辱 The parents were mortified by their children's bad behavior before the guests. 孩子们在客人面前的不良行为，使父母蒙羞。
Vocab	mortifycause to feel shame; hurt the pride of To mortify someone is to cause them extreme embarrassment. Your mother may not have been trying to mortify you when she showed up at your senior prom with a bunch of unicorn balloons, but she did. The root of the verb mortify is from the Latin word mors, which means “death.” To mortify something used to mean to destroy its life, but now mortify is mostly used when you feel so ashamed or embarrassed you “want to die.” To punish yourself through deprivation from food or another desire, you can mortify that compulsion, but it’s probably best to just mortify your parents by showing up at their work place with a new mohawk. All forms of 'mortify' will appear on average once every 534 pages. self-mortification mortification mortified mortify mortifying

Mortify Parents Feel Mɔːrtɪfaɪ V.使感到羞辱；使蒙屈辱 Mortified Children's Bad