Last Updated:2025/11/21

(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.

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mortify

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mortify

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Verb
transitive used passively usually obsolete Scotland historical intransitive
Japanese Meaning
自らの体や欲望を制御するために禁欲的な行動を実践する / (通常受動的に使われ、)人を恥ずかしい思いにさせる、屈辱を与える
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毎年四旬節には、彼は断食や禁酒によって自分の肉体を禁欲し、霊的な自制心を養った。

present singular third-person

participle present

participle past

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