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Synonyms for crucify
ˈkru səˌfaɪcru·ci·fy
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Princeton's WordNet
crucifyverb
kill by nailing onto a cross
"Jesus Christ was crucified"
Synonyms:
subdue, bedevil, blast, pillory, rag, savage, mortify, dun, frustrate, tormenttorment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrateverb
treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
Synonyms:
bawl out, chide, confound, befuddle, cross, lambast, foil, fox, savage, nark, tease, frustrate, bedevil, spoil, take to task, bother, blast, rile, rack, gravel, excruciate, trounce, bilk, rally, dun, get to, berate, thwart, torment, torture, chew out, pillory, baffle, nettle, throw, scotch, chafe, ride, get at, subdue, lecture, irritate, have words, reproof, razz, call down, tantalise, mortify, annoy, tantalize, reprimand, cod, scold, taunt, rebuke, rag, jaw, discombobulate, vex, lambaste, chew up, dress down, confuse, call on the carpet, remonstrate, bait, twit, devil, fuddlemortify, subdue, crucifyverb
hold within limits and control
"subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
Synonyms:
chasten, get over, master, inhibit, conquer, pillory, quash, humble, surmount, frustrate, bedevil, suppress, abase, chagrin, savage, keep down, dun, gangrene, torment, subjugate, sphacelate, humiliate, reduce, curb, stamp down, subordinate, tame, necrose, mortify, rag, blast, overcome, subdue, represssavage, blast, pillory, crucifyverb
criticize harshly or violently
"The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
Synonyms:
dun, savage, bedevil, subdue, gibbet, shoot, blare, pillory, nail, mortify, rag, boom, knock down, frustrate, shell, torment, blast, smash
Dictionary of English Synonymes
crucifyverb
Synonyms:
put to death upon the crosscrucifyverb
Synonyms:
subdue (as the passions, by christian principles), overcome, mortify
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#1083 | cross | |
#1314 | master | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2968 | ride | |
#3222 | fox | |
#3616 | shell | |
#4316 | lecture | |
#4404 | throw | |
#4680 | rack | |
#5117 | devil | |
#5175 | shoot | |
#5338 | torture | |
#5985 | cod | |
#6477 | blast | |
#6609 | rally | |
#6667 | nail | |
#7386 | boom | |
#7548 | overcome | |
#9792 | savage | |
#9936 | bother | |
#10816 | foil | |
#12155 | humble | |
#12551 | curb | |
#13072 | gravel | |
#13346 | smash | |
#13704 | bait | |
#14387 | jaw | |
#15810 | rag | |
#16211 | conquer | |
#16683 | suppress | |
#17024 | scotch | |
#17420 | tease | |
#17901 | inhibit | |
#18868 | subordinate | |
#19524 | dun | |
#20060 | confuse | |
#20785 | annoy | |
#21436 | spoil | |
#22879 | tame | |
#29210 | torment | |
#36264 | thwart | |
#41205 | baffle | |
#42240 | nettle | |
#44368 | reprimand | |
#44943 | chagrin | |
#45992 | rebuke | |
#47688 | irritate | |
#49040 | frustrate | |
#50234 | razz | |
#53644 | taunt | |
#54523 | vex | |
#54755 | subdue | |
#56041 | repress | |
#59581 | confound | |
#62512 | twit | |
#63083 | humiliate | |
#66240 | quash | |
#73551 | scold | |
#75926 | gangrene | |
#80021 | crucify | |
#90291 | chafe | |
#100697 | surmount | |
#105484 | reproof | |
#116275 | subjugate | |
#116298 | berate | |
#120061 | bilk | |
#126122 | chide | |
#127183 | rile | |
#128476 | gibbet | |
#130327 | pillory | |
#144808 | trounce | |
#148246 | tantalize | |
#150121 | blare | |
#189431 | befuddle | |
#205592 | abase | |
#216211 | bedevil | |
#219145 | mortify | |
#231498 | nark | |
#235554 | remonstrate | |
#246567 | chasten | |
#270504 | fuddle | |
#284627 | lambaste | |
#304391 | lambast | |
#321242 | tantalise |
How to use crucify in a sentence?
At the end of the day, I'm trying to distinguish ourselves from our enemies, they crucify people, they rape women, they sell them into slavery, they will kill people's children before their eyes.
If you want, crucify me, kill me, the price is a distortion ... I think the time has come ... to do it this year. I assume the responsibility and the criticisms.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
You can crucify a Jesus, you can poison a Socrates, you can hang John Brown or Nathan Hale, you can kill a Che Guevara, you can jail a Eugene Debs or a Bobby Seale. You can assassinate John Kennedy or a Martin Luther King, but the problems remain, the hangman's rope never solved a single problem except that of one man.
When Christians act violently they are acting in opposition to the teachings of their founder, Jesus Christ, they cannot cite a single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against unbelievers. On the other hand, radical Islamists can point to a number of verses in the Koran calling for Muslims to ‘crucify the infidels.’.
Translations for crucify
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- صلبArabic
- разпъвам на кръстBulgarian
- crucificarCatalan, Valencian
- ukřižovatCzech
- kreuzigenGerman
- σταυρώνωGreek
- crucificarSpanish
- ristiinnaulitaFinnish
- crucifierFrench
- ceusScottish Gaelic
- keresztre feszítHungarian
- խաչելArmenian
- krucagarIdo
- krossfestaIcelandic
- crocifiggere, crocefiggereItalian
- rīpekaMāori
- menyalibMalay
- korsfesteNorwegian
- kruisigenDutch
- korsfesteNorwegian Nynorsk
- crucificarPortuguese
- chakatayQuechua
- crucificaRomanian
- распятьRussian
- korsfästaSwedish
- haçlamak, çarmıha germekTurkish
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