Synonyms for mortify
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Embarrass — to affect with vexation or chagrin
embarrass, confound, disturb, perturb, put out, bring down, upset, disappoint, abash, disconcert, discomfit, discompose, vex, unsettle, agitate, ruffle
Definitions
- v. 1
To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.
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.
- v. 2
To affect with vexation or chagrin.
He seemed to enjoy mortifying them with news of every fresh hell loosed in the capital.
- v. 3
To lose vitality.
- v. 4
To be subdued.
Related words
- Word family
- mortification
Forms
- Past participle
- mortified
e.g. mortified → embarrassed, confounded, disturbed, perturbed…
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To mortify a person is to bring upon him a painful sense of humiliation, whether because of his own or another's fault or failure.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- embarrass I doubt very seriously that that'll embarrass Tom.
- abash The titter that rippled around the room appeared to abash the boy.
- shame I was put to shame in the presence of many people.
- humiliate Yuri didn't want Martha to humiliate him again.
By length
- 3 letters
- die1, rot1, vex1
- 4 letters
- fade1, wane1
- 5 letters
- upset2, shame1, crush1, quell1, abate2, abash2
- 6 letters
- humble2, subdue2, wither2, darken2, ruffle2, fester2, demean2, debase2, rankle2
- 7 letters
- disturb2, degrade2, subside2, chagrin2, crucify3, agitate3, perturb2
- 8 letters
- disgrace2, suppress2, diminish3, frighten2, dishonor3, gangrene2, confound2, unsettle3
- 9 letters
- embarrass3, humiliate4, dishonour, discomfit
- 10 letters
- disappoint3, disconcert3, discompose, sphacelate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (upset2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- mortifier
- Español
- mortificar