0 to make someone very embarrassed:
1 to cause someone to feel extremely ashamed or embarrassed:
The same attempts to mortify and alter the self and the identities of the person with dementia were found in our study.
He is progressively mortified, literally and figuratively, by the aliment that has constituted him and filled him and that has failed to find an outlet.
What the film exacts from its audience is not com-passion for a peer, but a purely sentimental pity, kept at a distance by a stoic and ultimately mortifying narrative conclusion.
At the end of the interview, she reminded me that this was told in confidence, that she would be ' mortified ' if others in her life knew.
I also think that every modern and humane employer is mortified at the thought that men should be hurt or disabled through their own fault.
Even they have gone back completely opposed to this scheme and completely mortified by what happened.
In other areas it will mortify, as we have seen other educational movements mortify.
Suffice it to say that there will always be, especially in criminal cases, bitter accusation and counteraccusation, and someone may well be mortified by it.
