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crucify

[ kroo-suh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

crucified, crucifying.
  1. to put to death by nailing or binding the hands and feet to a cross.
  2. to treat with gross injustice; persecute; torment; torture.
  3. to subdue (passion, sin, etc.).


crucify

/ 藞办谤耻藧蝉瑟藢蹿补瑟 /

verb

  1. to put to death by crucifixion
  2. slang.
    to defeat, ridicule, etc, totally

    the critics crucified his performance

  3. to treat very cruelly; torment
  4. to subdue (passion, lust, etc); mortify
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞肠谤耻肠颈藢蹿颈别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠谤耻顎僣颈路蹿颈顎卐谤 noun
  • 耻苍路肠谤耻顎僣颈路蹿颈别诲顎 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of crucify1

Middle English crucifien < Anglo-French, Old French crucifier < Latin 肠谤耻肠颈蹿墨驳别谤别, equivalent to Latin cruci- (stem of crux ) cross + 蹿墨驳别谤别 to fix, bind fast
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of crucify1

C13: from Old French crucifier, from Late Latin cruci蹿墨驳别谤别 to crucify, to fasten to a cross, from Latin crux cross + 蹿墨驳别谤别 to fasten
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In Greece, the sky lit up with fireworks, while worshippers in Jerusalem lit candles at the church where Jesus is said to have been crucified and buried.

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She said at the time she was 鈥渃rucified for looking like a 60-year-old.鈥

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鈥淚 have been convicted and sacrificed and crucified and stoned without a trial and without the option to defend myself.鈥

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鈥淲e were scared to death that in the transformation from actor to politician, he would just get crucified as a guy who did everything from script,鈥 Spencer told me.

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Outside the conference, protest organiser Caroline Graham told the BBC that the government's current policies were "crucifying" farmers.

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