To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
To spur on, strongly recommend.
To foster, give help or patronage
To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
To embarrass, to humiliate. To injure one's dignity.
To grant in mortmain.
To lose vitality.
To be subdued.
To gangrene.