🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

굴욕감을 주다

Pronunciation / Transliteration: gulyokgameul juda

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Mortify/ˈmɔːr.tɪ.faɪ/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그의 거만한 태도는 나에게 큰 굴욕감을 주었다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To cause someone to feel extremely embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated.

    "She was mortified to realize she had left her microphone on during the private conversation."
  2. 2

    To subdue or depress (the body, desires, or passions) through self-denial or severe discipline.

    "Ascetics historically sought to mortify their flesh through fasting and hardship."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old French mortifier, originating from Late Latin mortificare meaning 'to put to death', combining Latin mort-, stem of mors ('death'), and facere ('to make'). Historically shifting from literal physical killing or subduing of bodily passions in religious contexts to its modern psychological sense of causing extreme embarrassment or humiliation.

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