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