present participle of mortify

Causing mortification; extremely embarrassing.

mortification; abstinence

plural of mortifying

(transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. / (transitive, usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.

simple past tense and past participle of mortify

(informal) Acutely embarrassed.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mortify

plural of mortifier

One who, or that which, mortifies