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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

/ ˈ°ì°ù³Ü˲õɪˌ´Ú²¹Éª /

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
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±ËŒ´Ú¾±±ð°ù, noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of crucify1

Middle English crucifien < Anglo-French, Old French crucifier < Latin ³¦°ù³Ü³¦¾±´ÚÄ«²µ±ð°ù±ð, equivalent to Latin cruci- (stem of crux ) cross + ´ÚÄ«²µ±ð°ù±ð to fix, bind fast
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of crucify1

C13: from Old French crucifier, from Late Latin cruci´ÚÄ«²µ±ð°ù±ð to crucify, to fasten to a cross, from Latin crux cross + ´ÚÄ«²µ±ð°ù±ð to fasten
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She said at the time she was “crucified for looking like a 60-year-old.â€

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“I have been convicted and sacrificed and crucified and stoned without a trial and without the option to defend myself.â€

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“We 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,†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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Dafoe was crucified as Jesus in The Last Temptation of Christ and cut off his ear as Van Gogh in At Eternity's Gate.

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