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# mortified

«mortified» in Mova's school dictionary: **extremely embarrassed or ashamed** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (mortified); verb past form of «mortify» (mortify, mortifies, mortified, mortifying)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Mortified means extremely embarrassed or ashamed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#m1)

2) (verb) To mortify someone is to make them feel very embarrassed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#m2)

3) (church, old) To mortify the body was to make it suffer on purpose as a religious practice, for example by fasting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories, mortified is a strong feeling word, much stronger than «embarrassed»: falling over on stage, or when your dad dances at the school disco. In church history, some Christians practised «mortification» to grow in self-control. Common phrases: «absolutely mortified», «I was mortified», «mortifying moment».

### examples

- I was mortified when my trousers split in assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#x1)
- Mum was mortified that she had forgotten my birthday party. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#x2)
- He felt mortified after calling the teacher «Mum». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#x3)
- It was mortifying to trip up the stairs in front of everyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#x4)
- She was absolutely mortified when her phone rang during the play. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#x5)
- My sister was mortified by Dad's dancing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#x6)
- Pinocchio, mortified at being taken for a crab, said resentfully: [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/#x7)

### note

Used mostly as an adjective after «be» or «feel». The «-ing» form «mortifying» describes the situation. It comes from Latin «mors» (death) — as if you could «die of embarrassment».

### In the corpora

- [A teacher moves them along, and Kieran is mortified all day.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/483-neighbours-who-dont-speak-and-the-friendly-shopkeeper/17/)
- [Liam-Jay is mortified, which means so embarrassed he wants to vanish.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/524-wheres-your-dad-questions-and-cruel-jokes/37/)
- [Mortified means extremely embarrassed; "cringe" is slang for that squirming feeling.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/9-humiliated-in-front-of-everyone-the-moment-that-won-t-go-away/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «mortified» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/mortified/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.