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Mortifying
- verb - cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
- causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game"
- causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
- hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
- humilliate
- practice self-denial of one's body and appetites
- undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed"
Mortuaries
- noun - a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation
Morulation
- - The process of cleavage, or segmentation, of the ovum, by which a morula is formed.
Motherlike
- adjective - suggestive of or acting like a mother
Motilities
- noun - a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"
- ability to move spontaneously and independently
Motivating
- verb - give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career"
- impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments"
- the act of motivating; providing incentive
Motivation
- noun - the act of motivating; providing incentive
- the condition of being motivated; "his motivation was at a high level"
- the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives"
Motivative
- adjective - impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments"
Motivities
- noun - the power or ability to move
Motor City
- noun - the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor