(v. t.) To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.
(v. t.) To destroy the active powers or essential qualities of; to change by chemical action.
(v. t.) To deaden by religious or other discipline, as the carnal affections, bodily appetites, or worldly desires; to bring into subjection; to abase; to humble.
(v. t.) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
(v. i.) To lose vitality and organic structure, as flesh of a living body; to gangrene.
(v. i.) To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden desires by religious discipline.
(v. i.) To be subdued; to decay, as appetites, desires, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
(2) EPA Gazza’s Italia 90 tears were but a trickling tributary compared with the Amazon of anguish unleashed by the shell-shocked hosts during their mortifying 7-1 loss to Germany.
(3) Karen Harding later described herself as “mortified”.
(4) He added that the situation was equally bad for his two sons, who were mortified by the pictures published in the News of the World.
(5) I don't use my kids' real names on my blog and I try to avoid writing anything that would have mortified me growing up, but might they resent me later?
(6) Farage prefaced his comments with a prediction that he was sure the other leaders would be “mortified that I dare to even talk about it”.
(7) He is toughest of all on himself: nearly 50 years on he is still mortified by his rhyming of "woman" with "human" in a song that got yanked from Anyone Can Whistle .
(8) "A mortifying and appalling experience," said one, while another fan posted on the standup's Facebook page: "Absolutely awful.
(9) Smith replied: “It has been the most mortifying experience for me in this contest to have been painted as sexist, because it’s the last thing I am.
(10) It was mortifying, actually.” “But you decided to play into it?” I ask her.
(11) They’d be mortified if they were caught doing that to LGBT people or Muslims.
(12) The presenter apologised and said he was "mortified" by the accusation .
(13) After one particularly mortifying Saturday afternoon when she saw me in the Wimpy with – the horror of it all!
(14) The story of his life mortified him and sent him scurrying for excuses.
(15) My hope is that the government of Sheikh Hasina might actually be mortified by this letter.” Bangladesh must act on these brutal attacks on bloggers | Letters Read more The letter comes after the blogger Ananta Bijoy Das was hacked to death last week on a crowded street in Sylhet , Bangladesh’s fifth-largest city.
(16) I have plenty of Labour-voting friends who are happy to cheer Venezuelan nationalism, but who would be mortified to be called British nationalists.
(17) Read it as a teenager and you wince for poor mortified Lizzie and Jane, thinking perhaps of times when our own mother said the wrong thing.
(18) He added: "I am mortified to have done this, because it breaches the most basic ethical rule: don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you.
(19) I’d be mortified if Boris Johnson was made leader of the Tory party, because it will say something profoundly awful about British politics.” “I think he is a showman, and an effective class clown if you like, but the class clown tends to be disruptive, as I think he would be if he had the chance to put his silly views into practice.” The Conservative former chancellor Norman Lamont also came to Johnson’s defence, saying it was a “fact there were fascist theorists who believed very strongly in a united Europe”.
(20) When Aston Pride ended this March, local people were mortified at receiving no recognition, not even a junior official from Eric Pickles's Department for Communities to visit, or a letter of praise for being the top NDC after all those years of giving so much and overcoming such obstacles.
Revolt
Definition:
(n.) To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
(n.) Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.
(n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
(v. t.) To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
(v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
(n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
(n.) A revolter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
(2) Indeed, his reaction to the nationwide citizens' revolt reveals ominous parallels with another autocratic leader who has recently found himself in a tight spot: Vladimir Putin.
(3) I doubt the Daily Telegraph or David Cameron would support openly available "good porn", because I suspect they are just revolted by the whole idea of mixing sex and young people generally.
(4) "I doubt if there are any rational people to whom the word 'fuck' would be particularly diabolical, revolting or totally forbidden," Tynan said loftily, in the middle of a discussion about how sex could be represented on stage.
(5) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(6) A statement from the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, late on Tuesday evening capped an extraordinary day of near-revolt on Capitol Hill concerning the secret National Security Agency surveillance programes revealed by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by the Guardian and Washington Post.
(7) Westminster wits had taken to ridiculing the rebel movement against Gordon Brown as a "peasants' revolt", a cohort without influence.
(8) Ukip is also a very grey revolt, which adds another dark cloud over its long-term prospects – although, of course, generational change takes a long time!
(9) "Public sector workers and their families are utterly shocked by Jeremy Clarkson's revolting comments.
(10) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
(11) The Daily Telegraph delivered yesterday, describing the March in May protests as a revolt of the ferals .
(12) But despite all the institutional obstacles, Fahmy is certain that the size and nature of this year's revolt means there can be no going back to the days when Egyptians were severed from the deliberations and documents of those ruling in their name.
(13) Standard Chartered, HSBC's rival emerging markets bank, last week suffered the biggest revolt on a pay policy so far when 41% of shareholder votes opposed its proposed bonus terms for top executives.
(14) The news comes as James Murdoch faces a shareholder revolt over his continuing presence on the board of BSkyB, where he acts as chairman.
(15) The revolt represents a bittersweet victory for Tsipras, who now has to rely on “pro-European” opposition parties to push policies through parliament.
(16) Few measures have elicited more anger – or ingenious forms of revolt – than the property tax announced by Greek ministers to plug a budget black hole that might have gone unnoticed had Greece's plight not threatened the entire eurozone.
(17) A backbench revolt by Dáil deputies from the main ruling party Fine Gael is only going to amount to up to five of its Teachta Dálas with the protection of life during pregnancy bill likely to be passed on Thursday morning.
(18) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
(19) This afternoon, the first man sent out to dismiss the revolt was Tony Lloyd, chairman of the parliamentary Labour party, and the man who would have had to call the unconstitutional secret ballot.
(20) There is boardroom squabbling, the workforce is in open revolt and there are no new product lines.