Mortified

Definition: Mortified

Mortified

Adjective

1. Suffering from tissue death.

2. 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.

Date "mortified" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Mortified

Synonyms: embarrassed (adj), gangrenous (adj), humiliated (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mortified

English words defined with "mortified": embarrassed ♦ gangrene ♦ humiliated ♦ Mortifiedness ♦ slough, Sphacelated, sphacelus. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mortified": Mortification. (references)

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Modern Usage: Mortified

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Terrified mortified petrified stupefied by you. (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)
Movie/TV Titles	Dud Perkins Gets Mortified (1919)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Mortified

Domain	Title
Music	Mortified (reference) Mortified [IMPORT] (reference) Simply Mortified (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Use in Literature: Mortified

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Ambition, as well as love, had probably been mortified.
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Usage Frequency: Mortified

"Mortified" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 58.33% of the time. "Mortified" is used about 60 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	58.33%	35	58,339
Noun (proper)	18.33%	11	106,044
Lexical Verb (past tense)	15%	9	117,287
Adjective (general or positive)	8.33%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	60	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Mortified

Expression using "mortified": feel mortified. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Mortified

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
mortified	2
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Modern Translation: Mortified

Language		Translations for "mortified"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		gekränkt (aggrieved, hurt, piqued, upset), demütigte (humbled). (various references)

Hungarian		meggyötört (anguished, lacerated), megbántott (resentful), megalázott (humiliated), elhalt, üszkös (cankered, festering, gangrenous, necrotic, smutty). (various references)

Italian		mortificato. (various references)

Manx		molkit (decomposed, putrified, rotted, rotten), marroo (aground; deceased estate, assassinate, bag game; dead, bag; dead, butcher, deceased, defunct, departed, dispatch, dud, dull, dull of pain, exterminate, extinct; extermination, flat, flat mood, flat spot, glassy, glassy as look, inanimate, kill, kill off, killed, killing, lifeless, liquidate, liquidation, muggy, murder, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughtering, slay, slaying, sleeping, stagnant), fo nearey (disgraced). (various references)

Pig Latin		ortifiedmay

Serbo-Croatian		ponižen (degraded, humiliated), namučen (anguished). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Mortified

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	abalienati. (various references)
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Misspellings: Mortified

Misspellings
	"Mortified" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mordiford, mortifyed. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Mortified"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "mortified" (pronounced mô"rtufī'd)
7	-ô" r t u f ī' d	fortified.
5	-t u f ī' d	certified, decertified, gratified, identified, justified, misidentified, mystified, notified, quantified, ratified, rectified, stratified, testified, unidentified, unjustified.
4	-u f ī' d	acidified, amplified, calcified, clarified, classified, codified, crucified, Declassified, dignified, disqualified, diversified, electrified, exemplified, falsified, gentrified, glorified, horrified, indemnified, intensified, liquefied, magnified, modified, mollified, mummified, nullified, ossified, overqualified, oversimplified, pacified, personified, petrified, purified, qualified, reclassified, reunified, signified, simplified, solidified, specified, terrified, typified, unclassified, undignified, unified, unqualified, unspecified, unverified, verified.
3	-f ī' d	dissatisfied, satisfied, sulfide, unsatisfied.
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Anagrams: Mortified

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-i-m-o-r-t"
	-1 letter: modifier.
	-2 letters: deiform, diorite, timider.
	-3 letters: deform, dormie, dotier, editor, firmed, foetid, fomite, formed, mitier, mitred, rifted, rioted, tidier, trifid, triode.
	-4 letters: demit, dimer, doter, drift, droit, fermi, fetid, fetor, fiord, fired, forme, forte, fremd, fried, idiom, idiot, imide, imido, medii, merit, metro, mired, miter, mitre, moire, motif, ofter, refit, remit, rimed, teiid, timed.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-i-m-o-r-t"
	+2 letters: deformities.
	+3 letters: discomfiture.
	+4 letters: discomfitures.
	+5 letters: transmogrified.
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