Mortify – To make someone very embarrassed
(Pronounced mor-tiff-eye)
To remember the definition of the word mortify, use the following mnemonic:
More to fly? (mortify). How can we get any more on the flight? It makes me so embarrassed.
Examples of mortify in a sentence
If my mother picks me up from school in her pyjamas, she will mortify me in front of my friends.
The class bully began to mortify the shy girl by making fun of her old clothes.
If the boy was trying to mortify his parents by yelling during the opera – he succeeded.
