Sample Sentences for
mortified
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mortified as in:  felt mortified

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    She felt mortified after tripping onstage during the awards ceremony.
    mortified = exceedingly embarrassed
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    I felt so mortified, Marilla; he might have been politer to a stranger, I think.  (source)
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    I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.  (source)
    mortified = embarrassed or humiliated
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    I'm mortified Shane saw me half undressed.  (source)
    mortified = exceedingly embarrassed or humiliated
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    I could hide my mortification under it. [a costume]  (source)
    mortification = extreme embarrassment
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    The thought alone was mortifying.  (source)
    mortifying = causing extreme embarrassment, shame, or humiliation
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    Mortify my flesh, that I may be multiplied.†  (source)
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    Not that she in the least degree resembled a pheasant, having been endowed by nature with a short and squat and masculine figure; but successive mortifications had given her a backward tilt, such as one may observe in trees which have taken root on the very edge of a precipice and are forced to grow backwards to preserve their balance.†  (source)
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    Which not only hurts but also mortifies us both equally.†  (source)
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    They had simply, as Mrs. Welland said, "let poor Ellen find her own level"—and that, mortifyingly and incomprehensibly, was in the dim depths where the Blenkers prevailed, and "people who wrote" celebrated their untidy rites.†  (source)
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    I'd be mortified in front of a man like that.†  (source)
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    I knew Mychal well enough not to actually die of mortification, but only just.†  (source)
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    When I do, it's almost too mortifying to admit.†  (source)
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    Thou, like an exorcist, hast conjured up My mortified spirit.  (source)
    mortified = dead
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    Revenges burn in them, for their dear causes Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm Excite the mortified man.  (source)
    mortified = emotionally deadened
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