mortification
/ˌmɔːrtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
noun
- A strong feeling of shame, embarrassment, or humiliation.
- The student's mortification was obvious after she tripped and spilled her lunch tray in the cafeteria.
- To her mortification, she realized she had been singing the wrong lyrics in front of everyone.
- He blushed with mortification when his phone rang loudly during the quiet ceremony.
- The act of disciplining one's own body or desires, often for religious or spiritual reasons.
- Some traditions encourage mortification of the flesh as a path to spiritual purity.
- His daily mortification included cold showers and long periods of silence.
- The monk practiced mortification by fasting and sleeping on a hard floor.
- The process of tissue dying or decaying, as in gangrene.
- The doctor warned that untreated frostbite could lead to mortification of the toes.
- In severe cases, mortification of the skin requires surgical removal of the dead tissue.
- Mortification of the wound set in quickly due to the lack of clean bandages.
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