The difference between Demean and Mortify
When used as verbs, demean means to debase, whereas mortify means to discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires.
Demean is also noun with the meaning: management.
check bellow for the other definitions of Demean and Mortify
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Demean as a verb:
To debase; to lower; to degrade.
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Demean as a verb:
To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate.
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Demean as a verb:
To mortify.
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Demean as a verb:
To manage; to conduct; to treat.
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Demean as a verb:
To conduct; to behave; to comport; followed by the reflexive pronoun.
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Demean as a noun (archaic):
Management; treatment.
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Demean as a noun (archaic):
Behavior; conduct; bearing; demeanor.
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Demean as a noun:
demesne.
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Demean as a noun:
resources; means.
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Mortify as a verb (transitive):
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
Examples:
"Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body."
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Mortify as a verb (transitive, usually, used passively):
To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
Examples:
"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."
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Mortify as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To kill.
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Mortify as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
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Mortify as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
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Mortify as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
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Mortify as a verb (transitive, Scotland, legal, historical):
To grant in mortmain