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mortified
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Queen of Babble
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- "Oh no," I say, mortified.†
- 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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- I smile a little queasily back at him, still feeling mortified.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(mortified as in: felt mortified) extremely embarrassed and ashamed—so humiliated that pride feels wounded.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) a sense of biological decay; or a sense of ascetic self-imposed hardship; or (archaically) to be emotionally numbed