Mortify: alternatives and connections

To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece,…

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Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength,…

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To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.

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A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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To bend or curve

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The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, menta…

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The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed.

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained

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To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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To undergo a process common to organic substances by which they lose the cohesion of their parts and pass through certain chemical changes, giving of…

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Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.

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To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.

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To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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of Wind

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To press or bruise between two hard bodies; to squeeze, so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mas…

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To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman,…

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To manage; to conduct; to treat.

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The condition of being out of favor; loss of favor, regard, or respect.

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To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.

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Vexation; mortification.

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Vexation; mortification.

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The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified

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The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified

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To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from.

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To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.

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To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.

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To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

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Vexation; mortification.

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To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet.

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A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applie…

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Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

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To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.

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To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis.

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To affect with gangrene.

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To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.

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