mortify

To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.

Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.

With fasting mortify'd, worn out with tears.

To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate.

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.

Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.

To kill.

The second Spring after transplanting, purge them of all superfluous shoots and scions, reserving only the most towardly for the future stem; this to be done yearly, as long as they continue in the nursery; and if of the principal stem so left, the frost mortifie any part, cut it off [...]

To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.

Soothly, the gode werkes, that he dide biforn that he fil in sinne, been al mortified and astoned and dulled by the ofte sinning.

Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.

To affect with vexation or chagrin.

He seemed to enjoy mortifying them with news of every fresh hell loosed in the capital.

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