different between depress vs mortify
depress
English
Etymology
From Middle English depressen, from Old French depresser, from Latin d?pressus, perfect participle of d?prim? (“to press down, to weigh down”), from d?- (“off, away, down, out”) +? prem? (“to press”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??p??s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Verb
depress (third-person singular simple present depresses, present participle depressing, simple past and past participle depressed)
- To press down.
- To make depressed, sad or bored.
- (economics) To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
- To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
- (mathematics) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
Synonyms
- downbear
Derived terms
Translations
References
- depress in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- depress in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- pressed, spersed
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mortify
English
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman mortifier, Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortific? (“cause death”), from Latin mors (“death”) + -fic? (“-fy”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m??t?fa?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m??t?fa?/
Verb
mortify (third-person singular simple present mortifies, present participle mortifying, simple past and past participle mortified)
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. [from 15th c.]
- Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
- 1767, Walter Harte, Eulogius: Or, The Charitable Mason
- With fasting mortify'd, worn out with tears.
- 1688, Matthew Prior, An Ode
- Mortify thy learned lust.
- Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth.
- (transitive, usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity. [from 17th c.]
- I was so mortified I could have died right there; instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.
- (obsolete, transitive) To kill. [14th–17th c.]
- (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize. [14th–18th c.]
- 1627, George Hakewill, Apologie […] of the Power and Providence of God
- He […] mortified them [pearls] in vineger aud drunke them vp
- 1627, George Hakewill, Apologie […] of the Power and Providence of God
- (obsolete, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic. [15th–18th c.]
- (obsolete, transitive) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
- 22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary
- the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
- How often is [the ambitious man] mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!
- 22 September 1651 (date in diary), 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, John Evelyn's Diary
- (transitive, Scotland, law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB):
- the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary
- 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland, Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (PDF 2.7 MB):
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (intransitive) To gangrene.
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
Synonyms
- (to discipline oneself by suppressing desires): macerate
- (to injure one's dignity): demean, humiliate, shame
Antonyms
- (to injure one's dignity): dignify, honor
Related terms
- mortification
Translations
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