mortified..this is a very strange looking word.
it doesnt really work. unless reaf means she feels ashamed around birds. maybe she meant petrified?
ha ha, mortified. . .petrified, whatever, I hate them!
i knew what she meant. I've seen it used like that a bunch of times...
No. She's right. Look it up. You're referring to the THIRD definition of that word.
what dictionary are you looking at?
mor·ti·fy
v. mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing, mor·ti·fies
v. tr.
1. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate.
2. To discipline (one's body and physical appetites) by self-denial or self-inflicted privation.
v. intr.
1. To practice ascetic discipline or self-denial of the body and its appetites.
2. Pathology. To undergo mortification; become gangrenous or necrosed.
[Middle English mortifien, to deaden, subdue, from Old French mortifier, from Latin mortificre, to kill : mors, mort-, death; see mer- in Indo-European Roots + -ficre, -fy.]
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
pwn'd!
Quiet, you. I don't know howe many dictionaries she looked at to get THAT entry, but I go by my old trusted MERRIAM-WEBSTER DICTIONARY [the only one that counts, jk]. Besides, I've seen in used that way in many, many writings. Check it:
Main Entry: mor·ti·fy
Pronunciation: 'mor-t&-"fI
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -fied; -fy·ing
Etymology: Middle English mortifien, from Middle French mortifier, from Late Latin mortificare, from Latin mort-, mors
Date: 14th century
transitive senses
1 : obsolete : to destroy the strength, vitality, or functioning of
2 : to subdue or deaden (as the body or bodily appetites) especially by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort
3 : to subject to severe and vexing embarrassment : SHAME
intransitive senses
1 : to practice mortification
2 : to become necrotic or gangrenous
An animal, object or practice can certainly frighten someone so much that their faculties aren't theres and they freeze, like a dead person. I know snakes destroy MY strength and vitality! UGH! Anyway, I'll save everyone the trouble--P/VV/N/3/D! BOTH OF YOU!
did you notice that the #1 def is "obselete"? maybe you need to update your dictionary.
Obsolete: no longer in use or no longer useful.
When stunned or scared certainly your faculties and coping habits are disused and replaced with panic. The word works. Let it go.
ADDITIONAL: VERB: 1. To cause (a person) to be self-consciously distressed: abash, chagrin, confound, confuse, discomfit, discomfort, disconcert, discountenance, embarrass, faze. Idioms: put on the spot, throw for a loop. See PAIN. 2. To deprive of esteem, self-worth, or effectiveness: abase, degrade, demean2, humble, humiliate. Idioms: bring low, take down a peg. See RESPECT, WIN.
oh, what's that? i'm sorry. did you say you would like to be PWN'D too?
I think the arguement here is, who is the bigger nerd.... and im happy to call you BOTH huge nerds... WHAT now... PWNED!!!