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say it: MAWR-tuh-fahyd
mortified is an adjective meaning "suffering from tissue death". It carries 2 recorded senses.
suffering from tissue death
made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride
“too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street”
“humiliated that his wife had to go out to work”
“felt mortified by the comparison with her sister”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mortified come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.