mortify
verb (used with object)
to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
had mortified
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past perfectof mortify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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She had mortified her boss by jetting away on lavish trips and hiring a firm to rate the reporters covering her.
From Time Magazine Archive
The tidings came in due time that William had been accidentally pierced by the point of a lance in the hand, the wound had mortified, and he expired at the end of a week.
From Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte Mary Yonge
All of this the old woman told us quite briskly after she had drunk the water, I think because her wound had mortified and she felt no pain.
From She and Allan by Henry Rider Haggard
He had thwarted her schemes, he had mortified her vanity, he had wounded her pride; and she was one of those women who bide their time, but have a strong tenacity of resentments.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
Indeed, he was a very different-looking person from the boy that six months ago had mortified her by his appearance at her Easter party in "the classiest coat in the market."
From Quin by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice
