crucify   (TTS Sound)

The verb crucify has 4 senses

• crucify -- (kill by nailing onto a cross; "Jesus Christ was crucified")


• torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate -- (treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher")


• mortify, subdue, crucify -- (hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh")


• savage, blast, pillory, crucify -- (criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage")