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crucify

[ US /ˈkɹusəˌfaɪ/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈuːsɪfˌa‍ɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. kill by nailing onto a cross
    Jesus Christ was crucified
  2. criticize harshly or violently
    The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage
    The press savaged the new President
  3. hold within limits and control
    subdue one's appetites
    mortify the flesh
  4. treat cruelly
    The children tormented the stuttering teacher

How To Use crucify In A Sentence

  • The Son of Anak, otherwise Rufus the Blue-Eyed, and also plebeianly known as Tots, rioted with him from brier-rose path to farthest orchard, scalped him in the haymow with barbaric yells, and once, with pharisaic zeal, was near to crucifying him under the attic roof beams. Local Color
  • But the Tories will continue to crucify manufacturing industry, in pursuit of an absurdly high parity in the Exchange Rate Mechanism.
  • That the populace easily changed their cry from "hosanna" to "crucify him" is not surprising. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth
  • I thought this was so lame because if, first of all, if the groom had done this, we would be crucifying him.
  • I didn't have the courage to take them to task on national television particularly since they have the microphone and they have 3 hours every morning, five days a week until the election to crucify me if that is their wish.
  • Critical feedback isn't some vicious plot concocted to crucify you - it can be used constructively.
  • It is impossible to bring them back to repent again, because they are again crucifying the Son of God and exposing him to public shame. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another AppSlappy is up!
  • Repentance is called crucifying the flesh (Gal. 5: 24), which is not done on a sudden, but leisurely; it will be doing all our life. Provocations & Pantings
  • The features, look, air, portrait, the expression indefinable except as a light of outcoming spirit, were those of the man he had helped crucify before the The Prince of India — Volume 01
  • With what divine skill does the apostle, founding on resistless facts, here drive home to the conscience of his auditors their guilt in crucifying the Lord of Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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