mortifier
French, verb/mɔʁ.ti.fje/
mortifier is spelled M-O-R-T-I-F-I-E-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 132,154th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mortifier is a French verb meaning “to mortify, humiliate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Meurtrir”.
What does mortifier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to mortify, humiliate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Meurtrir. 2. Soumettre son corps à des souffrances physiques ou morales, à des privations pour se purifier. 3. Réprimer en parlant des sens, des passions, etc. 4. Humilier.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mortifier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- mortifiant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- mortifié participle past
- mortifie first-person indicative present
- mortifies indicative present second-person
- mortifions first-person indicative plural
- mortifiez indicative plural present
- mortifient indicative plural present
- mortifiais first-person imperfect indicative
- mortifiait imperfect indicative singular
- mortifiions first-person imperfect indicative
- mortifiiez imperfect indicative plural
- mortifiaient imperfect indicative plural
- mortifiai first-person historic indicative
- mortifias historic indicative past
- mortifia historic indicative past
- mortifiâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mortifier?
- /mɔʁ.ti.fje/
- \mɔʁ.ti.fje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mortifier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mortifier in French?
mortifier appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).