Mortifying

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Mortify.

II. Mortifying ·adj Subduing the appetites, desires, ·etc.; as, mortifying penances.

III. Mortifying ·adj Tending to humble or abase; humiliating; as, a mortifying repulse.

IV. Mortifying ·adj Tending to mortify; affected by, or having symptoms of, mortification; as, a mortifying wound; mortifying flesh.