To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
(usually used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
To kill.
To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
To grant in mortmain.
To lose vitality.
To gangrene.
To be subdued.