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- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. [from 15th c.]
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Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on. [from 15th c.]
- (transitive, usually used passively) To injure the dignity of; to embarrass; to humiliate. [from 17th c.]
- (obsolete, transitive) To kill. [14th–17th c.]
- (obsolete, transitive) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize. [14th–18th c.]
- (transitive) To affect with vexation or chagrin.
- (transitive) To scare.
- (obsolete, transitive) To humble; to depress.
- (transitive, Scots law, historical) To grant in mortmain.
- (intransitive) To lose vitality.
- (archaic, transitive) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic. [15th–18th c.]
- (archaic, intransitive) To gangrene.
- (intransitive) To be subdued.
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