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mor·ti·fy (môŕtə-fī́)

[Middle English mortifien, to deaden, subdue, from Old French mortifier, from Latin mortificāre, to kill, mors, mort-, death, + -ficāre, -fy.]

verb: -fied, -fy·ing, -fies. 

transitive verb 

  1. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate.
  2. To discipline (one's body and physical appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.

intransitive verb 

  1. To practice ascetic discipline or self-denial of the body and its appetites.
  2. Pathology To undergo mortification; become gangrenous or necrosed.