'Crucify' definitions:

Definition of 'crucify'

From: WordNet
verb
Kill by nailing onto a cross; "Jesus Christ was crucified"
verb
Treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate]
verb
Hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" [syn: mortify, subdue, crucify]
verb
Criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify]

Definition of 'Crucify'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • They cried, saying, Crucify him, cricify him. --Luke xxiii. 21. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify. [1913 Webster]
  • They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh, with the affections and lusts. --Gal. v. 24. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To vex or torment. --Beau. & FL. [1913 Webster]

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