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{"id": "mortify", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "mortify", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["late Middle English (in the senses \u2018put to death\u2019, \u2018deaden\u2019, and \u2018subdue by self-denial\u2019): from Old French mortifier, from ecclesiastical Latin mortificare \u2018kill, subdue\u2019, from mors, mort- \u2018death\u2019"], "grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflections": [{"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflectedForm": "mortifies"}, {"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflectedForm": "mortifying"}, {"grammaticalFeatures": [{"id": "transitive", "text": "Transitive", "type": "Subcategorization"}], "inflectedForm": "mortified"}], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/mortify_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "\u02c8m\u0254\u02d0t\u026af\u028c\u026a"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["cause (someone) to feel very embarrassed or ashamed"], "examples": [{"text": "he was suitably mortified by his own idiocy"}, {"text": "I'm mortified that an editorial error was introduced into the copy"}, {"notes": [{"text": "as adjective \"mortified\"", "type": "wordFormNote"}], "text": "if he could read my mind, I would be absolutely mortified"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0661770.006", "shortDefinitions": ["cause someone to feel very embarrassed or ashamed"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "embarrass"}, {"language": "en", "text": "humiliate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "chagrin"}, {"language": "en", "text": "shame"}, {"language": "en", "text": "discomfit"}, {"language": "en", "text": "abash"}, {"language": "en", "text": "horrify"}, {"language": "en", "text": "appal"}, {"language": "en", "text": "crush"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "mortify", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0009683.001"}]}, {"definitions": ["subdue (the body or its needs and desires) by self-denial or discipline"], "examples": [{"text": "they wish to return to heaven by mortifying the flesh"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0661770.013", "shortDefinitions": ["subdue by self-denial or discipline"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "subdue"}, {"language": "en", "text": "suppress"}, {"language": "en", "text": "subjugate"}, {"language": "en", "text": "control"}, {"language": "en", "text": "restrain"}, {"language": "en", "text": "get under control"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "mortify", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0009683.003"}]}, {"definitions": ["(of flesh) be affected by gangrene or necrosis"], "domainClasses": [{"id": "medicine", "text": "Medicine"}], "examples": [{"text": "the cut in Henry's arm had mortified"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0661770.015", "notes": [{"text": "no object", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "shortDefinitions": ["(of flesh) be affected by gangrene or necrosis"], "synonyms": [{"language": "en", "text": "become gangrenous"}, {"language": "en", "text": "fester"}, {"language": "en", "text": "putrefy"}, {"language": "en", "text": "gangrene"}, {"language": "en", "text": "rot"}, {"language": "en", "text": "decay"}, {"language": "en", "text": "decompose"}], "thesaurusLinks": [{"entry_id": "mortify", "sense_id": "t_en_gb0009683.004"}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "verb", "text": "Verb"}, "text": "mortify"}], "type": "headword", "word": "mortify"}], "word": "mortify"}
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