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— English words —

• mortify v. (Transitive) To discipline (One’s body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
• mortify v. (Transitive, usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one’s dignity.
• mortify v. (Obsolete, transitive) To kill.
• mortify v. (Obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
• mortify v. (Obsolete, transitive) To kill off (Living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
• mortify v. (Obsolete, transitive) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
• mortify v. (Transitive, Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
• mortify v. (Intransitive) To lose vitality.
• mortify v. (Intransitive) To gangrene.
• mortify v. (Intransitive) To be subdued.

— English word, defined in French —

• mortify v. Abaisser, humilier, abattre.

49 English words from 10 English definitions

abstinence affect appetites body chagrin deaden depress desires dignity discipline embarrass etc gangrene grant historical humble humiliate humiliation injure Intransitive kill kill␣off law Living Living␣tissue lose make mortmain necrotic neutralize nullify Obsolete off one passively potency practise reduce Scotland subdued suppressing the tissue transitive used usually vexation vitality with

3 foreign words from the foreign definition

Abaisser abattre humilier

3 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

mortifying mortifyings mortifyingly

11 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

-ify Mor MOR Mor. mort Mort ort ORT RTI tif TIF

8 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

fit FiT FIT rom Rom ROM Rom. TRO

One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

fumitory

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

motify torify

One cousin (New word found by changing only one letter.)

fortify

One lipogram (New word found when removing only one letter.)

motify

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