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Plague vs Mortify - What's the difference?

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Plague is a related term of mortify.


As verbs the difference between plague and mortify

is that plague is while mortify is (obsolete|transitive) to kill.

plague

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium ''Yersinia pestis .
  • (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
  • A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
    • Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses's people go.
  • A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates
    • Bart is an utter plague ; his pranks never cease.

    Synonyms

    * pest

    Derived terms

    * plaguesome * plaguey

    Verb

  • To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
    • Wikis are often plagued by vandalism
  • To afflict with a disease or other calamity.
    • ''Natural catastrophies plagued the colonists till they abandoned the pestilent marshland

    Derived terms

    * plaguer

    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.
  • *
    • , 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

    Related terms

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