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Depress vs Mortify - What's the difference?

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Depress is a related term of mortify.


As verbs the difference between depress and mortify

is that depress is to press down while mortify is (obsolete|transitive) to kill.

depress

English

Verb

(es)
  • To press down.
  • Depress the upper lever to start the machine.
  • To make depressed, sad or bored.
  • Winter depresses me.
  • To cause a depression or a decrease in parts of the economy.
  • Lower productivity will eventually depress wages.
  • To bring down or humble; to abase (pride, etc.).
  • (math) To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree.
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    mortify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To kill.
  • (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.
  • * Hakewill
  • He mortified pearls in vinegar.
  • (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.
  • Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
  • * Harte
  • With fasting mortified , worn out with tears.
  • * Prior
  • Mortify thy learned lust.
  • * Bible, Col. iii. 5
  • Mortify , therefore, your members which are upon the earth.
  • (usually, used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate.
  • 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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  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
  • * Evelyn
  • the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
  • * Addison
  • 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!
  • (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 ( PDF 2.7 MB):
  • the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary