Found 3 items, similar to Crucify.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: crucify
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: crucify
crucify
v 1: kill by nailing onto a cross;
“Jesus Christ was crucified”
2: treat cruelly;
“The children tormented the stuttering
teacher” [syn:
torment,
rag,
bedevil,
dun,
frustrate]
3: criticize harshly or violently;
“The press savaged the new
President”;
“The critics crucified the author for
plagiarizing a famous passage” [syn:
savage,
pillory]
[also:
crucified]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Crucify
Crucify
\Cru"ci*fy\ (-f?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Crucified
(-f?d); p. pr. & vb. n.
Crucifying.] [F. crucifier, fr.
(assumed) LL. crucificare, for crucifigere, fr, L. crux,
crucis, cross + figere to fix, the ending -figere being
changed to -ficare, F. -fier (in compounds), as if fr. L.
facere to do, make. See
Cross, and
Fix, and cf.
Crucifix.]
1. To fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands
and feet to a cross or gibbet.
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They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. --Luke
xxiii. 21.
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2. To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue
completely; to mortify.
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They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh,
with the affections and lusts. --Gal. v. 24.
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3. To vex or torment. --Beau. & FL.
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