Distressed vs Mortified - What's the difference?
distressed | mortified | Related terms |
anxious or uneasy
(of merchandise etc) damaged
(of a property) offered for sale after foreclosure
(of furniture etc) faded or abused in order to appear old, or antique
(distress)
(mortify)
(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 (
Distressed is a related term of mortified.
As verbs the difference between distressed and mortified
is that distressed is (distress) while mortified is (mortify).As an adjective distressed
is anxious or uneasy.distressed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm distressed that John hasn't answered my calls. I hope nothing bad happened to him on the way here.
Verb
(head)mortified
English
Verb
(head)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