All 3 Uses of
mortified
in
Queen of Babble
- And the occasional mortification of having to appear in front of a guy I had a crush on in a bathing suit at the lake or whatever.†
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- "Oh no," I say, mortified.†
- I smile a little queasily back at him, still feeling mortified.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortified as in: felt mortified) exceedingly embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
See a comprehensive dictionary for less common senses of mortified including a sense of biological decay, a sense of ascetic self-imposed hardship, and (archaically) to be emotionally numbed.