mortify
intransitive verbTo cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride.
To discipline (one's of the body and the appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation, especially for religious reasons.
To practice mortification of the body and its appetites.
To undergo mortification; become gangrenous.
To destroy the life of; destroy the vitality of (a part of a living body); affect with gangrene.
