vt.

1. 使感屈辱；使失面子；使羞愧[H]
   The teacher was mortified by his own inability to answer such a simple question.

   老師因自己回答不出如此簡單的問題而感到羞愧。

2. 【宗】克制（情慾等），抑制
   mortify the flesh

   禁慾苦修

3. 【醫】使變成壞疽

vi.

1. 【醫】變成壞疽
2. 禁慾，苦行

v.

1. cause to feel very embarrassed or ashamed.
2. subdue (physical urges) by self-denial or discipline.
3. (of flesh) be affected by gangrene or necrosis.