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The meaning of MORTIFIED is feeling or showing strong shame or embarrassment. How to use mortified in a sentence.
mortified. [ + to infinitive ] She was absolutely mortified to hear her son swearing at the teacher. ashamed He was ashamed that he had been caught stealing. embarrassed I was too embarrassed to admit I was wrong. abashed She looked at the floor, abashed.
1. : to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : shame. was no longer mortified by comparisons between her sisters' beauty and her own Jane Austen. 2. : to subdue or deaden (the body, bodily appetites, etc.) especially by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort. mortified his body for spiritual purification. 3.
Mortified definition: humiliated, ashamed, or deeply embarrassed. See examples of MORTIFIED used in a sentence.
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.
to cause someone to feel extremely ashamed or embarrassed: He’s mortified by the fact that at 38 he still lives at home with his mother. (Definition of mortify from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of mortify.
Synonyms for MORTIFIED: upset, irritated, aggravated, perturbed, chagrined, bothered, nonplussed, nervous; Antonyms of MORTIFIED: collected, composed, confident, unperturbed, undisturbed, assured, calm, cool.
