Word of the Day: MORTIFY

mortify (verb) - to humiliate; to cause to feel shame; to subdue or deaden one's body with self-denial

BREAKDOWN: MORT- (dead) + -FY (to make)

mortification is a feeling of shame or humiliation; punishment or death of the body

“Whenever I have found that I have blundered, or that my work has been imperfected, and when I have been contemptuously criticised, and even when I have been overpraised, so that I have felt mortified, it has been my greatest comfort to say hundreds of times to myself that 'I have worked as hard as I could, and no man can do more than this.'“ —Charles Darwin