What does crucify mean?
Definitions for crucify
ˈkru səˌfaɪcru·ci·fy
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Princeton's WordNet
crucify(verb)
kill by nailing onto a cross
"Jesus Christ was crucified"
torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate(verb)
treat cruelly
"The children tormented the stuttering teacher"
mortify, subdue, crucify(verb)
hold within limits and control
"subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh"
savage, blast, pillory, crucify(verb)
criticize harshly or violently
"The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage"
Wiktionary
crucify(Verb)
To execute (a person) by nailing to a cross.
Etymology: crucefier, from crucifigo.
Webster Dictionary
Crucify(verb)
to fasten to a cross; to put to death by nailing the hands and feet to a cross or gibbet
Etymology: [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.]
Crucify(verb)
to destroy the power or ruling influence of; to subdue completely; to mortify
Etymology: [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.]
Crucify(verb)
to vex or torment
Etymology: [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.]
Freebase
Crucify
"Crucify" is a song by American singer-songwriter and musician Tori Amos. It was released as the fifth single from her debut studio album Little Earthquakes. It was released on May 12, 1992 by Atlantic Records in North America and on June 8 by EastWest Records in the UK.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Crucify
krōō′si-fī, v.t. to put to death by fixing the hands and feet to a cross: to subdue completely: to mortify: to torment:—pa.p. cru′cified.—ns. Crucifī′er, one who crucifies; Cru′cifix, a figure or picture of Christ fixed to the cross; Crucifix′ion, death on the cross, esp. that of Christ.—adjs. Cru′ciform, in the form of a cross; Crucig′erous, bearing a cross. [O. Fr. crucifier—L. crucifigĕre, crucifixum—crux, and figĕre, to fix.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of crucify in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of crucify in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of crucify in a Sentence
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.
Everyone wants to crucify him now, and no one wants to accept any more how much good he has done for soccer, especially for the advancement of women on the pitch as well as in the ranks of officialdom.
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.
Not only do they kill and butcher and rape Christians and burn churches and crucify Christians, but they turn on each other and kill each other, this is something our country is going to have to come to grips with.
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.
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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
- çarmıha germek, haçlamakTurkish
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