Synonyms of the word

mortify

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
• v. (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
• v. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
• v. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
• v. (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
• v. (Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

abase

• v. (transitive, archaic) To lower physically or depress; to stoop; to throw or cast down.
• v. (transitive) To lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, so as to hurt feelings or cause pain; to…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lower in value, in particular as altering the content of alloys in coins.

bruise

• v. (transitive) To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such…
• v. (transitive) To damage the skin of (fruit), in an analogous way.
• v. (intransitive) Of fruit, to gain bruises through being handled roughly.
• v. (intransitive) To become bruised.
• v. (intransitive) To fight with the fists; to box.
• n. (medicine) A purplish mark on the skin due to leakage of blood from capillaries under the surface that…
• n. A dark mark on fruit caused by a blow to its surface.

chagrin

• n. Distress of mind caused by a failure of aims or plans, want of appreciation, mistakes etc; vexation or…
• n. A type of leather or skin with a rough surface.
• v. (transitive) To bother or vex; to mortify.
• v. (intransitive) To be vexed or annoyed.

check

• n. (chess) A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
• n. An inspection or examination.
• n. A control; a limit or stop.
• n. (US) A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator, equivalent to a tick (UK).
• n. (US) An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity; a cheque (UK, Canada).
• n. (US) A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
• n. (contact sports) A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
• n. A token used instead of cash in gaming machines.
• n. A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
• n. A mark, certificate, or token, by which, errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
• n. (falconry) The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
• n. A small chink or crack.
• v. To inspect; to examine.
• v. To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
• v. (US, often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have…
• v. To control, limit, or halt.
• v. To verify or compare with a source of information.
• v. To leave in safekeeping.
• v. To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
• v. (street basketball) To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have…
• v. (contact sports) To hit another player with one's body.
• v. (poker) To remain in a hand without betting. Only legal if no one has yet bet.
• v. (chess) To make a move which puts an adversary's piece, especially the king, in check; to put in check.
• v. To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
• v. (nautical) To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
• v. To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
• v. To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
• v. To make a stop; to pause; with at.
• v. (obsolete) To clash or interfere.
• v. To act as a curb or restraint.
• v. (falconry) To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
• n. (textiles, usually pluralized) A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered…

condition

• n. A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
• n. A requirement, term, or requisite.
• n. (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal…
• n. The health status of a medical patient.
• n. The state or quality.
• n. A particular state of being.
• n. (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
• v. To subject to the process of acclimation.
• v. To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
• v. (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
• v. To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
• v. (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
• v. (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
• v. (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
• v. (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up…
• v. To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged…

contain

• v. (transitive) To hold inside.
• v. (transitive) To include as a part.
• v. (transitive) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
• v. (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

control

• v. (transitive) To exercise influence over; to suggest or dictate the behavior of.
• v. (transitive, statistics) (construed with for) To design (an experiment) so that the effects of one or…
• n. (countable, uncountable) Influence or authority over something.
• n. A separate group or subject in an experiment against which the results are compared where the primary…
• n. The method and means of governing the performance of any apparatus, machine or system, such as a lever,…
• n. Restraint or ability to contain one's movements or emotions, or self-control.
• n. A security mechanism, policy, or procedure that can counter system attack, reduce risks, and resolve vulnerabilities;…
• n. (project management) A means of monitoring for, and triggering intervention in, activities that are not…
• n. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register.
• n. (graphical user interface) An interface element that a computer user interacts with, such as a window…
• n. (climatology) Any of the physical factors determining the climate of a place, such as latitude, distribution…
• n. (linguistics) A construction in which the understood subject of a given predicate is determined by an…

curb

• n. (Canada, US) A concrete margin along the edge of a road; a kerb (UK).
• n. A raised margin along the edge of something, such as a well or the eye of a dome, as a strengthening.
• n. Something that checks or restrains; a restraint.
• n. A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by…
• n. (Canada, US) A sidewalk, covered or partially enclosed, bordering the airport terminal road system with…
• n. A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint,…
• v. (transitive) To check, restrain or control.
• v. (transitive) To rein in.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.
• v. (transitive) To force to "bite the curb" (hit the pavement curb); see curb stomp.
• v. (transitive) To damage vehicle wheels or tires by running into or over a pavement curb.
• v. (transitive) To bend or curve.
• v. (intransitive) To crouch; to cringe.

discipline

• n. A controlled behaviour; self-control.
• n. An enforced compliance or control.
• n. A systematic method of obtaining obedience.
• n. A state of order based on submission to authority.
• n. A punishment to train or maintain control.
• n. A whip used for self-flagellation.
• n. A set of rules regulating behaviour.
• n. A flagellation as a means of obtaining sexual gratification.
• n. A specific branch of knowledge or learning.
• n. A category in which a certain art, sport or other activity belongs.
• v. (transitive) To train someone by instruction and practice.
• v. (transitive) To teach someone to obey authority.
• v. (transitive) To punish someone in order to (re)gain control.
• v. (transitive) To impose order on someone.

gangrene

• n. The necrosis or rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
• n. (figuratively) A damaging or corrupting influence.
• v. (transitive) To produce gangrene in.
• v. (intransitive) To be affected with gangrene.

hold

• adj. (obsolete) Gracious; friendly; faithful; true.
• v. (transitive) To grasp or grip.
• v. (transitive) To contain or store.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state.
• v. (heading) To maintain or keep to particular opinions, promises, actions.
• v. (tennis, transitive, intransitive) To win one's own service game.
• v. To take place, to occur.
• v. To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
• v. (archaic) To derive right or title.
• n. A grasp or grip.
• n. A place where animals are held for safety.
• n. An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
• n. Something reserved or kept.
• n. Power over someone or something.
• n. The ability to persist.
• n. The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
• n. (wrestling) A position or grip used to control the opponent.
• n. (exercise (sport)) An exercise involving holding a position for a set time.
• n. (gambling) The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
• n. (gambling) The wager amount, the total hold.
• n. (tennis) An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
• n. The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
• n. A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
• n. (video games, dated) A pause facility.
• n. The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when…
• n. (nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft, (often cargo hold).

humble

• adj. not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming.
• adj. Thinking lowly of oneself; claiming little for oneself; not proud, arrogant, or assuming; modest.
• v. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humiliate.
• v. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiency of;…
• adj. hornless.

humiliate

• v. (transitive) To injure a person's dignity and self-respect.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

injure

• v. (transitive) To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature.
• v. (transitive) To damage or impair.
• v. (transitive) To do injustice to.

moderate

• adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
• adj. Mediocre.
• adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
• adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
• adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
• n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
• v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.

mortify

• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill.
• v. (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
• v. To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
• v. (usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
• v. (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
• v. (Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.

necrose

• v. (intransitive, pathology) To become necrotic.

offend

• v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
• v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
• v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
• v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

rot

• v. (intransitive) To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria.
• v. (intransitive) To decline in function or utility.
• v. (intransitive) To deteriorate in any way.
• v. (transitive) To make putrid; to cause to be wholly or partially decomposed by natural processes.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To spend a long period of time (in an unpleasant place).
• v. (transitive) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber;…
• n. The process of becoming rotten; putrefaction.
• n. Any of several diseases in which breakdown of tissue occurs.
• n. Verbal nonsense.

sphacelate

• v. (medicine) To affect with gangrene.

spite

• n. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire…
• n. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
• v. (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
• v. (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
• prep. Notwithstanding; despite.

subdue

• v. To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
• v. To bring (a country) under control by force.

train

• n. Elongated portion.
• n. Connected sequence of people or things.
• v. (intransitive) To practice an ability.
• v. (transitive) To teach and form by practice; to educate; to exercise with discipline.
• v. (intransitive) To improve one's fitness.
• v. To proceed in sequence.
• v. (transitive) To move (a gun) laterally so that it points in a different direction.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To encourage (a plant or branch) to grow in a particular direction or shape,…
• v. (mining) To trace (a lode or any mineral appearance) to its head.
• v. (transitive, video games) To create a trainer for; to apply cheats to (a game).
• v. (obsolete) To draw along; to trail; to drag.
• v. (obsolete) To draw by persuasion, artifice, or the like; to attract by stratagem; to entice; to allure.
• n. (obsolete) Treachery; deceit.
• n. (obsolete) A trick or stratagem.
• n. (obsolete) A trap for animals; a snare.
• n. (obsolete) A lure; a decoy.

waste

• n. Excess of material, useless by-products or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
• n. Excrement or urine.
• n. A waste land; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
• n. A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
• n. A large tract of uncultivated land.
• n. (historical) The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays…
• n. A vast expanse of water.
• n. A disused mine or part of one.
• n. The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
• n. Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
• n. Gradual loss or decay.
• n. A decaying of the body by disease; wasting away.
• n. (rare) Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; See "to lay waste".
• n. (law) A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the…
• n. (geology) Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the…
• adj. (now rare) Uncultivated, uninhabited.
• adj. Barren; desert.
• adj. Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
• adj. Superfluous; needless.
• adj. Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
• adj. Unfortunate; disappointing.
• v. (transitive) to devastate, destroy.
• v. (transitive) To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill; to murder.
• v. (transitive) To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to…
• v. (intransitive) Gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
• v. (intransitive) To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
• v. (law) To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences,…

wound

• n. An injury, such as a cut, stab, or tear, to a (usually external) part of the body.
• n. (figuratively) A hurt to a person's feelings, reputation, prospects, etc.
• n. (criminal law) An injury to a person by which the skin is divided or its continuity broken.
• v. (transitive) To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin.
• v. (transitive) To hurt (a person's feelings).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of wind.