All 3 Uses
mortified
in
Flipped, by Wendelin Van Draanen
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- Juli always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.†
p. 23.9
- Yes, my friend, the possibilities for mortification were infinite.†
p. 174.8 *
- And standing next to Mrs. McClure looking completely mortified was Jon Trulock.†
p. 201.1
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