mortifies
Causes intense embarrassment
Mortifies is the third-person singular of mortify.
To mortify someone is to cause them deep embarrassment or humiliation: It mortifies me when my father tells that story.
In religious contexts, to mortify the flesh is to subdue bodily desires through discipline or self-denial.
Mortified tissue is dead or dying—gangrene mortifies flesh.
Facial reddening from emotion
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- humiliateCause painful shame
- red-facedShowing visible embarrassment
- shamefacedShowing visible embarrassment
self-conscious · awkward · flustered · chagrin · discomfiture · abashment · sheepish · cringe
Soft body matter
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
- abstinenceVoluntary forgoing of indulgences
discipline · subdue · renunciation · austerity · flagellation · hairshirt · celibacy · monastic
blush
Facial reddening from emotion
shamefaced · self-conscious · awkward · flustered · chagrin · discomfiture · abashment · sheepish · cringe · wince
flesh
Soft body matter
- self-denialRestraining one's own desires
- penanceSelf-mortification for wrongdoing
- fastingDeliberate food avoidance
abstinence · discipline · subdue · renunciation · austerity · flagellation · hairshirt · celibacy · monastic · penitent
gangrene
Tissue death from bloodlessness
decompose · putrefy · rot · infection · wound · dead · deteriorate · sepsis