[{"word":"mortify","phonetic":"/ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/","phonetics":[{"text":"/ˈmɔːtɪfaɪ/","audio":"https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/mortify-uk.mp3","sourceUrl":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87201882","license":{"name":"BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0"}},{"text":"/ˈmɔɹtɪfaɪ/","audio":""}],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body."},{"definition":"(usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"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."},{"definition":"To kill.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To grant in mortmain.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To lose vitality.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To gangrene.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To be subdued.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["macerate","demean","humiliate","shame"],"antonyms":["dignify","honor"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortify"]}]