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"Mortify"
Keywords:
appetites
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deaden
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subdue
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humble
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pride
Related Terms:
Mortification
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Envy
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Vanity
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Avarice
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Courage
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Hate
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Hatred
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Humiliation
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Greed
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Fanatic
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Temptation
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Loathe
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Pride
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Cruel
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Desire
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Lust
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Gloat
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Jealous
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Proud
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Fire
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Hero
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Unkind
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Abomination
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Passion
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Brute
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Passionate love
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Pleasure
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Earnest
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Brag
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Pervert
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Infatuation
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Intemperance
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Desire
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Lascivious
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Hostility
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Homophobia
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Affection
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Delight
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Xenophobia
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Dissolute
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Torment
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Regard
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Desire
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Brutal
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Humility
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Scunner
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Wish
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Curiosity
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Kama
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Hostile
To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble; as, to mortify the flesh.
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To humiliate deeply, especially by injuring the pride of; to embarrass painfully; to humble; as, the team was mortified to lose by 45 to 0.
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To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
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To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
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practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
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hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
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cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
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Keywords:
gangrene
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vital
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destroy
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flesh
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texture
To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
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To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
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To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
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Keywords:
vexation
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chagrin
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depress
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affect
To affect with vexation, chagrin; to depress.
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Keywords:
necrosed
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necrosis
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undergo
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wound
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tissue
undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
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