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mortified (root: mortify)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective mortified has 2 senses
- mortified(s = adj.all) gangrenous - suffering from tissue death; Array
- mortified(s = adj.all) embarrassed, humiliated - made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"
CIDE DICTIONARY
mortified, imp. & p. p.
mortified, a.
Deeply embarrased; painfully humiliated. [PJC]
THESAURUS
mortified
abashed, afflicted, agitated, annoyed, ascetic, ashamed, astringent, austere, bad, beset, blushing, bothered, cankered, carious, cast down, chagrined, chapfallen, confused, contaminated, corrupt, crestfallen, crushed, decayed, decomposed, discomfited, discomforted, discomposed, disconcerted, diseased, disquieted, distressed, disturbed, embarrassed, festering, foul, gangrened, gangrenous, gone bad, hangdog, harassed, humbled, humiliated, hung up, ill at ease, infected, morbid, necrosed, necrotic, out of countenance, pathological, peccant, perturbed, poisoned, put-out, put-upon, putrefied, putrescent, putrid, red-faced, rotten, rotting, septic, shamed, shamefaced, shamefast, sphacelated, spoiled, stern, suppurating, suppurative, tainted, troubled, ulcerated, ulcerous, uncomfortable, uneasy, upset, worried
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