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To mortify someone is to cause them extreme embarrassment. Your mother may not have been trying to mortify you when she showed up at your senior prom with a bunch of unicorn balloons, but she did.
The root of the verb mortify is from the Latin word mors, which means “death.” To mortify something used to mean to destroy its life, but now mortify is mostly used when you feel so ashamed or embarrassed you “want to die.” To punish yourself through deprivation from food or another desire, you can mortify that compulsion, but it’s probably best to just mortify your parents by showing up at their work place with a new mohawk.
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词根词缀
词根: mort
=death,表示”死”
adj.
morbid 病态的,不正常的morb=mort死+id……的→像死一样→疾病的
moribund 即将结束的,垂死的mori=mort死+bund=bound边界→死的边界
mortuary 死亡的mort死+u+ary场所→放尸体的地方
postmortem 死后的, 死后发生的post后+mort死+em→死后的→死后检查尸体
n.
mortal 凡人mort死+al人→终有一死的人→凡人
mortuary 停尸间,太平间mort死+u+ary场所→放尸体的地方
postmortem 尸体检查, 验尸post后+mort死+em→死后的→死后检查尸体
n.&v.
mortgage 抵押[借款]mort死+gage抵押品→抵押品不能动,像死的
v.
immortalize 使不灭,使不朽,使名垂千古immortal[adj.不朽的]+ize表动词→v.使不灭,使不朽,使名垂千古
mortify 使屈辱,使痛心mort死+ify使……→使人想死→羞辱[别人]
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词根：mortify
adj.mortified窘迫的；受辱的
mortifying痛心的；使人羞愧的；禁欲苦修的
n.mortification屈辱；禁欲；坏疽
v.mortified使受辱（mortify的过去式）
vt.mortifying苦修；使…悔恨（mortify的ing形式）