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
That called forth a burst of laughter from the entire audience, all being as well aware as the lecturer himself who it was that had mortified him.”
From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
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
Whatever had mortified or angered me at our last interview was forgiven and forgotten now.
From The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins
Still the play went off languidly after the lively petite piece, and I saw I had mortified my husband's vanity, which my first performance had gratified.
From A Wife's Duty A Tale by Amelia Alderson Opie
