mortify

Other forms of mortify

past tense or participle

mortified

present participle

mortifying·

third person

mortifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mortify

What does mortify mean?

mortify means "practice self-denial of one's body and appetites". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mortify?

mortify has 3 syllables: mor-ti-fy. The stress falls on "mor". In IPA it is /ˈmɔɹtɪˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for mortify?

Close synonyms include subdue, crucify, humiliate, chagrin, humble. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mortify a common word?

mortify is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mortify?

72 words rhyme with mortify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.