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crucify

verb

1 crucify

Kill by nailing onto a cross.

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; ... show more

Dutch: kruisigen

2 crucify

Treat cruelly.

synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment.

Roget 378: feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain etc. n.; suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, ... show more

Roget 830: cause pain, occasion pain, give pain, bring pain, induce pain, produce pain, create pain, inflict pain etc. 828; pain, hurt, wound.    pinch, ... show more

3 crucify

Hold within limits and control.

synonyms: mortify, subdue.

4 crucify

Criticize harshly or violently.

synonyms: blast, pillory, savage.

Dutch: afbreken, afgeven, afkammen, afkraken, afzeiken, kraken, neerhalen, veroordelen


Moby thesaurus: abuse, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, bedevil, befoul, behead, bewitch, bite, blight, bloody, bother, bowstring, browbeat, burn, chafe, claw, condemn, convulse ... show more.

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