All 7 Uses of
mortified
in
Cinder, by Marissa Meyer
- Cinder glared at the doctor, half-mortified, but the start of a smile grew on Kai's face.†
p. 162.8 *
- If he knew the truth ...how mortified would he be if anyone found out?†
p. 164.9
- He would be mortified.†
p. 190.4
- She would be mortified.†
p. 190.4
- Cinder looked at her stepsister, at Adri, took in their speechless mortification, and reminded herself to breathe.†
p. 336.9
- "But you're nothing but a—" She caught her tongue, even now unwilling to share the mortifying secret about her stepdaughter.†
p. 339.9
- Mortified, she glanced at their intertwined fingers and the black smudges on the white silk gloves.†
p. 341.8
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.