Usually means: Humiliation due to embarrassment, shame.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. mortification: Merriam-Webster
  2. mortification: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mortification: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mortification: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mortification: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mortification, mortification: Wordnik
  7. mortification: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mortification: Wiktionary
  9. mortification: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mortification: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mortification: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mortification: Dictionary.com
  13. Mortification (album), Mortification (band), Mortification (theology), Mortification: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Mortification: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. mortification: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. mortification: Rhymezone
  17. Mortification: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mortification: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. mortification: FreeDictionary.org
  20. mortification: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. mortification: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. mortification: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mortification: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. mortification: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. mortification: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mortification, Mortification, Mortification: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mortification: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mortifications as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of mortifying.
noun:  A sensation of extreme shame or embarrassment.
noun:  (medicine) The death of part of the body.
noun:  A bringing under of the passions and appetites by a severe or strict manner of living.
noun:  (law, Scotland) A bequest to a charitable institution.

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