Annoy vs Mortify - What's the difference?
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To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.
* Prior
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To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome.
To molest; to harm; to injure.
* Evelyn
A feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.
* 1532 (first printing), Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose :
* 1870 , Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sciety and Solitude :
That which causes such a feeling.
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, King Rchard III , IV.2:
* 1872 , Robert Browning, "Fifine at the Fair, V:
(obsolete) To kill.
(obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
* Francis Bacon
* Hakewill
(obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
*, II.3:
*:Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie his legs.
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
* Harte
* Prior
* Bible, Col. iii. 5
(usually, used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate.
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(obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
* Evelyn
* Addison
(Scotland, legal, historical) To grant in mortmain
* 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland , Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 (
As verbs the difference between annoy and mortify
is that annoy is to disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds while mortify is to kill.As a noun annoy
is a feeling of discomfort or vexation caused by what one dislikes.annoy
English
Verb
(en verb)- Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy / Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy?
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- to annoy an army by impeding its march, or by a cannonade
- tapers put into lanterns or sconces of several-coloured, oiled paper, that the wind might not annoy them
Synonyms
* (to disturb or irritate) bother, bug, hassle, irritate, pester, nag, irk * See alsoAntonyms
* pleaseNoun
(en noun)- I merveyle me wonder faste / How ony man may lyve or laste / In such peyne and such brennyng, / [...] In such annoy contynuely.
- if she says he was defeated, why he had better a great deal have been defeated, than give her a moment's annoy .
- Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, / Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy [...].
- The home far and away, the distance where lives joy, / The cure, at once and ever, of world and world's annoy [...].
Synonyms
* (both senses) annoyanceReferences
* *Anagrams
*mortify
English
Verb
(en-verb)- Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.
- He mortified pearls in vinegar.
- Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
- With fasting mortified , worn out with tears.
- Mortify thy learned lust.
- Mortify , therefore, your members which are upon the earth.
- 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.
- the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
- How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!
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- the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary