MORTIFIES Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

mortifies

verb

present tense third-person singular of mortify

as in embarrasses

to throw into a state of self-conscious distress was mortified by her children's atrocious manners

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Recent Examples of mortifies To admit this now mortifies me, but the full implication of those files would not dawn on me for another decade. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

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Universities responded by raising tuition to a sticker price that embarrasses the word tuition.

— Stephen Messer, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2026
Or from locking up Mick Cronin through 2030, even though UCLA’s prickly basketball coach embarrasses the university annually and hasn’t reached a Sweet 16 since 2023.

— Mirjam Swanson, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of embarrasses

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The legal system dehumanizes her, the support group confuses her, and one of her friends painfully disappoints her.

— Carey Purcell, Vogue, 2 Oct. 2026
This confuses each Nyota but also those around them, who note that the Nyotas have rather quickly assumed new hairstyles but also that neither is behaving quite like herself.

— Keith Phipps, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of confuses

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The film was produced by the Zagha bothers for Avanti Pictures alongside Elsa Reyes and Películas V’s Valentín Javier Diment and Vanesa Pagani.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026
Television doesn’t lack for comedies that deliver biting satire and cogent commentary — that are, in fact, so committed to commentary that nobody bothers to even include jokes.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

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